• Thumbnail for Amalthea (mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάλθεια) is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus. The name Amalthea, in Greek...
    11 KB (1,224 words) - 21:54, 28 October 2024
  • 1959. An [English language|English]] translation, titled "Destination: Amaltheia", was published in a collection of the same name of Russian science fiction...
    2 KB (170 words) - 03:17, 1 November 2024
  • received their name. She was one of the nymph nurses of Zeus, sister to Amaltheia, but rather than feeding the baby milk, Melissa, appropriately for her...
    15 KB (1,745 words) - 12:42, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cornucopia
    for and protected by a number of divine attendants, including the goat Amaltheia ("Nourishing Goddess"), who fed him with her milk. The suckling future...
    15 KB (1,541 words) - 03:01, 24 October 2024
  • Rhea, often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to Zeus,...
    6 KB (709 words) - 03:56, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumaean Sibyl
    Pausanias and Lactantius or the Aeneid's "Deiphobe, daughter of Glaucus": "Amaltheia", "Demophile" or "Taraxandra" all appear in various references. The story...
    16 KB (2,049 words) - 16:34, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Former constellations
    Ian. "Canes Venatici". Star Tales. Retrieved 1 April 2018. "AMALTHEA (Amaltheia) - Goat Nurse of Zeus in Greek Mythology". www.theoi.com. Ridpath, Ian...
    23 KB (774 words) - 16:04, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Democritus
    the Things in Hades, Tritogenia, On Manliness or On Virtue, The Horn of Amaltheia, On Contentment, Ethical Commentaries Natural science The Great World-System...
    24 KB (2,902 words) - 19:09, 22 October 2024
  • багровых туч 1959 N/A novel The Way to Amalthea (also known as Destination: Amaltheia) Путь на Амальтею 1960 1963 novella Noon: 22nd Century Полдень, XXII век...
    27 KB (1,947 words) - 14:18, 27 October 2024
  • The infant god was fed on milk and honey, the milk of the goat-nymph Amaltheia. Melisseus is simply another form of Melissus, also a Cretan "honey-man...
    6 KB (792 words) - 21:05, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dionysus
    Libya. Ammon had married the goddess Rhea, but he had an affair with Amaltheia, who bore Dionysus. Ammon feared Rhea's wrath if she were to discover...
    220 KB (25,141 words) - 00:44, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nearchus
    Natural History, §6.26.1 Cf.Davaras, Costis. (1989). Νέαρχος ὁ Λάτιος, Amaltheia 20, pp. 233–240. Ancient authorities: Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, vi....
    17 KB (2,201 words) - 18:31, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oracle
    and Lactantius, "Deiphobe, daughter of Glaucus" by Virgil, as well as "Amaltheia", "Demophile", or "Taraxandra" by others. Sibyl's prophecies became popular...
    31 KB (3,728 words) - 16:31, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Mulieribus Claris
    Aetolians 24. Deianira, wife of Hercules 25. Jocasta, queen of Thebes 26. Amaltheia or Deiphebe, a Sibyl 27. Nicostrata, or Carmenta, daughter of King Ionius...
    12 KB (1,097 words) - 10:27, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Goat
    original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022. Smith, William (1870). "Amaltheia". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. Perseus.Tufts...
    63 KB (6,551 words) - 15:06, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anna Perenna
    some equate Anna Perenna with the Moon, with Themis, with Io or with Amaltheia, but prefers the report that during the secessio plebis an old woman of...
    6 KB (719 words) - 14:28, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hephaestus
    Χρυσεος) was set by Rhea to guard the infant Zeus and his nurse, the goat Amaltheia, on the island of Krete. Later Tantalus was said to have stolen the automaton...
    56 KB (5,789 words) - 20:07, 31 October 2024
  • Titans). According to him he fell in love with a "maiden of unusual beauty" Amaltheia with whom he fathered Dionysus. According to other stories, Dionysus was...
    40 KB (4,988 words) - 11:07, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amalthea (moon)
    September 1892 Designations Pronunciation /æməlˈθiːə/ Named after Ἀμάλθεια Amaltheia Adjectives Amalthean /æməlˈθiːən/ Orbital characteristics Periapsis 181150 km...
    30 KB (2,660 words) - 22:59, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMY Iolaire
    Park in Caernarfonshire, had acquired the yacht. He renamed her after Amaltheia, a nymph in Greek mythology. The Mercantile Navy List records the name...
    37 KB (4,046 words) - 21:24, 3 October 2024
  • wrapped in a star-spangled robe and in one hand holding the horn of Amaltheia, according to his appearance in a dream. Pausanias, Description of Greece...
    4 KB (521 words) - 00:06, 23 October 2024
  • cradle of gold", and fed him with honeycomb, and the milk of the goat Amaltheia. Apollonius of Rhodes, describes a wondrous toy ball which Adrasteia gave...
    50 KB (4,815 words) - 19:55, 28 October 2024
  • Luke and his companion, Thalia Grace. The two of them follow the goat Amaltheia to an abandoned house, only to get trapped inside by the living curtains...
    9 KB (1,225 words) - 15:46, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axios horse
    observation post for ecotourism. From 2008 to 2012, however, according to Amaltheia, the Greek association for the protection of small animal breeds, no specific...
    10 KB (1,114 words) - 14:45, 30 October 2024
  • his comedies survive, along with fifty-eight titles: Ancylion Anchises Amaltheia Anasozomenoi ("Men Who Were Trying To Get Home Safe") Antiope Astytoi...
    3 KB (354 words) - 09:48, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Achelous
    this new bountiful land of the Achelous River delta came to be known as Amaltheia's horn of plenty. Joseph Fontenrose saw in this story the possible reflection...
    63 KB (6,252 words) - 05:46, 5 September 2024
  • British Isles. According to BioLib the following are included: Hypseloecus amaltheia Linnavuori, 1992 Hypseloecus amyemi Schuh & Menard, 2011 Hypseloecus amyemicola...
    3 KB (230 words) - 03:51, 8 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Chaonians
    prominent example is that of Titus Pomponius Atticus, who built Amaltheion or Amaltheia near Bouthrotos, and bred horses and 120 herds of oxen. However, it is...
    132 KB (16,378 words) - 05:05, 2 November 2024
  • divided the coach: the four parts of the earth, Mercury, Liberal Arts and Amaltheia over a panther. The King, ironically, died fifteen days following his...
    8 KB (915 words) - 06:00, 3 July 2024