Astaroth
Astaroth is identified by John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost as part of an unholy trinity consisting of Beelzebub, Lucifer, and Astaroth. Astaroth is one of the many fallen angels in Hell's hierarchy.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 900 BCE
- Attested period
- -900 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in John Milton's Paradise Lost, first published in 1667.
Relationships
- allied with
- Beelzebub
- co occurs with
- Al-lāt, Atargatis, Aphrodite, Inanna, Ahura Mazda, Ashtoreth, Ištar, Moloch, Chamos, Satan, Leviathan, Venus, Shaitan, Angra Mainyu, Baal
- syncretized with
- Astarte
- enemy of
- Saint Bartholomew
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“John Milton, in his epic poem Paradise Lost, first published in 1667, identified an unholy trinity consisting of Beelzebub, Lucifer, and Astaroth.”
#2324 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Astaroth was mentioned in The Book of Abramelin, purportedly written in Hebrew c. 1458, and recurred in most occult grimoires of the following centuries. Dutch demonologist Johann Weyer mentioned Astaroth as the great duke of hell with a shape of foul angel.”
#25779 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“During the period of the Judges and of the Kings, the Israelites... raised up altars to Baal and Astaroth, even to Moloch and Chamos.”
#44693 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free