Asteria

deity sky Greek single tradition · 4

Asteria is a star goddess and the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus. She bore Hecate.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Titan goddess in Greek mythology.

Relationships

sibling of
Leto
enemy of
Hera
allied with
Leto
consort of
Perses, Zeus
manifests as
bird, wandering island, Delos
parent of
Heracles, Hecate
child of
Phoebe, Coeus

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Sources

Source passages

“and then Asteria, a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate.”

#18918 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“He later urged his mother to go to Delos, who used to Leto's sister Asteria. Delos was the only place on earth willing to receive Leto when she went into labour, defying Hera's orders.”

#22722 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Although the island in which the twins were born after Asteria was transformed into it is mostly treated as a single place, variously referred to as Delos or Ortygia, several traditions make a distinction between the two islands, having Delos as the birthplace of Apollo and Ortygia of Artemis.”

#27825 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“He was wed to his cousin Asteria, the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus, with whom he had one child, Hecate, honoured by the king of the gods Zeus above all others as the goddess of magic, crossroads, and witchcraft.”

#44790 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free