In Greek mythology, Asteria
was a name attributed to five individuals:
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ASTERIA TICKETS
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Amazon
Asteria was the sixth
Amazon killed by
Heracles when he came for
Hippolyte's girdle.
Daughter of Coeus
Greek deities
series
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| Primordial deities
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| Olympians
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| Aquatic deities
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| Chthonic deities
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| Personified concepts
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| Other deities
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| Titans
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| The Twelve Titans:
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| Oceanus and Tethys,
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| Hyperion and Theia,
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| Coeus and Phoebe,
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| Cronus and Rhea,
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| Mnemosyne, Themis,
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| Crius, Iapetus
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| Children of Hyperion:
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| Eos, Helios, Selene
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| Daughters of Coeus:
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| Leto and Asteria
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| Sons of Iapetus:
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| Atlas, Prometheus,
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| Epimetheus, Menoetius
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| Sons of Crius:
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| Astraeus, Pallas,
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| Perses
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Asteria was the daughter of the titans
Coeus and
Phoebe and sister of
Leto.
[1] According to
Hesiod, by
Perses she had a daughter
Hecate.
The Titan goddess of oracles, prophetic dreams, astrology and necromancy, Asteria flung herself into the
Aegean Sea in the form of a quail in order to escape the advances of
Zeus. She became the island of the same name. Later, the island Asteria was identified with
Delos, which was the only piece of earth to give refuge to the fugitive Leto when, pregnant with Zeus's children, she was pursued by vengeful Hera.
[2]
According to a lost poem of
Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE)
[3] by Zeus she became the mother of the
Heracles in the form in which Hellenes thought they recognized him (by
interpretatio graeca
) as he was worshipped among
Phoenicians at
Tyre.
Heliades
Asteria or Astris was one of the
Heliades, daughters of
Helios, either by the
Oceanid Clymene or the
Oceanid Ceto. She married the river god
Hydaspes and became mother of
Deriades, king of
India.
Danaid
Asteria was one of the
Danaids, daughters of
Danaus who, with one exception, murdered their husbands on their weddings nights. She was, briefly, the bride of Chaetus.
Alkyonides
Asteria was one of the
Alkyonides. Along with her sisters, she flung herself into the sea and was transformed into a
kingfisher.
References
- Hesiod, ''Theogony'', 404ff.
- Theoi Project - Titanis Asteria
- Athenaeus (392d) summarizes the lost poetical narrative of Eudoxus, telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria was killed by Typhon in Libya.