Asteria (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Asteria (/əˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστερία, "of the stars, starry one") was a name attributed to the following eleven individuals:

Christoph Willibald Gluck gave the name Asteria to one of the characters in his 1765 opera Telemaco, though the name did not appear in Homer's Odyssey on which the opera was based.

Notes

  1. Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
  3. Suda s. v. Alkyonides
  4. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Hydissos
  5. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 139, citing Pherecydes
  6. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
  7. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 939
  8. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 450
  9. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.16.3
  10. Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 4. 8185 (painting on François Vase)
gollark: At worst it would probably severely damage it.
gollark: A giant space rock would be very hard-pressed to destroy the Earth.
gollark: Depends on what you consider "die", but it will probably involve the sun doing things.
gollark: I mean, outside-view-ishly, life on Earth has existed for several billion years, so the probability (without knowing anything else) of it randomly stopping over the course of some arbitrary thousand or so is... not high.
gollark: > There's nothing that says that life on earth will go on forever. That the environment will not self destruct via CO2 and warming, or any other method.???

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