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In order to escape from his embraces, she got metamorphosed into a quail (ortux), threw herself into the sea, and was here metamorphosed into the island Asteria (the island which had fallen from heaven like a star), or Ortygia, afterwards called Delos. But according to the genuine and more general tradition, she was an inhabitant of Olympus, and beloved by Zeus. 16) makes her the mother of the fourth Heracles by Zeus. 409), the wife of Perses, by whom she became the mother of Hecate. She was the sister of Leto, and, according to Hesiod ( Theog. HEKATE (by Perses) (Hesiod Theogony 404, Apollodorus 1.8, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.18)ĪSTE′RIA (Asteria), a daughter of the Titan Coeus (according to Hygin. KOIOS & PHOIBE (Hesiod Theogony 404, Apollodorus 1.9, Hyginus Preface) OFFSPRING

She is probably the same as Brizo, an obscure Delian goddess who delivered prophetic dreams. Her sister Leto later gave birth to Apollon on the isle.Īsteria is depicted in Athenian vase-painting alongside the other Delian gods-Apollon, Artemis and Leto. She was the mother of Hekate (Hecate), goddess of witchcraft, by the Titan Perses.Īfter the fall of the Titans, Zeus chased Asteria across the sky but she escaped him by transforming herself into a quail and leaping into the sea to became the island of Delos. Starry, Falling-Star Asteria, Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts BostonĪSTERIA was the Titan goddess of falling stars and perhaps of nighttime divinations such as oneiromancy (by dreams) and astrology (by stars).