Asteria

Family: Danaid · Role: princess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

Life events

• Asteria transformed into a quail and flung herself into the sea to escape Zeus.(Apollodorus, Library 1.4)
  • With: Zeus
  • “Asteria in the likeness of a quail flung herself into the sea in order to escape the amorous advances of Zeus”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

• parent: Coeus “to Coeus and Phoebe were born Asteria and Latona”
• parent: Phoebe “to Coeus and Phoebe were born Asteria and Latona”
• child: Hecate “to Perses and Asteria was born Hecate”

Apollodorus, Library 1.4

• courtship with Zeus “Asteria in the likeness of a quail flung herself into the sea in order to escape the amorous advances of Zeus”
• admirer: Zeus “Asteria in the likeness of a quail flung herself into the sea in order to escape the amorous advances of Zeus”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• married with Chaetus “Chaetus got Asteria”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• parent: Coeus “Also she bare Asteria of happy name”
• married with Perses “whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.”

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