Asteria

In Greek mythology, Asteria (Greek: αστερία, "of the stars, starry one") was a name attributed to the following eight individuals:
==Daughter of Coeus==
Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and sister of Leto.Hesiod, Theogony, 404ff. According to Hesiod, by Perses she had a daughter Hecate.
The Titan goddess of 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 "quail island" of Ortygia,John Tzetzes.. which became 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.Theoi Project - Titanis Asteria
According to a lost poem of Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE)Athenaeus (392d) summarizes the lost poetical narrative of Eudoxus, telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria was killed by Typhon in Libya. 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.
==Amazon==
Asteria was the ninth Amazon killed by Heracles when he came for Hippolyta's girdle.Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 16.3 (on-line text)
==Heliad==
Asteria or Astris was a daughter of Helios and Clymene or Ceto, one of the Heliades. She married the river god Hydaspes (the modern Jhelum River) and became mother of Deriades, king in 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.Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 1. 5
==Alkyonides==
Asteria was one of the Alkyonides. Along with her sisters, she flung herself into the sea and was transformed into a kingfisherSuda s. v. Alkyonides.
==Consort of Phocus==
AsteriaTzetzes on Lycophron, 53 or AsterodiaTzetzes on Lycophron, 939 was the mother of Crisus and Panopaeus by Phocus.
==Consort of Bellerophon==
Asteria, daughter of Hydeus, was the mother of Hydissos by Bellerophon. Her son is known for having founded a city in Caria which was named after himStephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Hydissos.
==Daughter of Coronus==
Asteria, daughter of Coronus, and Apollo were possible parents of the seer Idmon.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 139, citing Pherecydes of Leros
==References==
==External links==
*Theoi Project: Asteria
Category:Greek Mythology