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InGreek mythology,Asteria (/əˈstɪəriə/;Ancient Greek: Ἀστερία, "of thestars, starry one") was a name attributed to several distinct individuals.

• Asteria, a minor goddess who became the islandOrtygia orDelos, daughter ofPhoebe andCoeus and sister toLeto.^[1]
• Asteria orAstris, daughter ofHelios andClymene^[2] orCeto,^[3] one of theHeliades.^[4] She married the river god Hydaspes (the modernJhelum River) and became mother ofDeriades, king in India.
• Asteria, one of theDanaïdes, daughters ofDanaus who, with one exception, murdered their husbands on their wedding nights. She was, briefly, the bride ofChaetus.^[5]
• Asteria, one of theAlcyonides, daughters of thegiantAlcyoneus. She was the sister ofAlkippe,Anthe,Drimo,Pallene,Methone andPhthonia (Phosthonia orChthonia).^[6] When their father Alcyoneus was slain byHeracles, these girls threw themselves into the sea from Kanastraion, which is the peak ofPellene. They were then transformed intohalcyons (kingfishers) by the goddessAmphitrite.^[7]
• Asteria, daughter ofHydeus, was the mother ofHydissos byBellerophon. Her son is known for having founded a city inCaria which was named after him.^[8]
• Asteria, daughter ofCoronus, andApollo were possible parents of the seerIdmon.^[9]
• Asteria^[10] orAsterodia,^[11] mother ofCrisus andPanopeus byPhocus.
• Asteria, daughter ofTeucer andEune ofCyprus.^[12]
• Asteria, the ninthAmazon killed byHeracles when he came forHippolyte's girdle.^[13]
• Asteria, an Athenian maiden among the would-besacrificial victims of Minotaur, portrayed in a vase painting.^[14]

• Christoph Willibald Gluck gave the name Asteria to a character in his 1765operaTelemaco;^[15][16] however, the name did not appear inHomer'sOdyssey, on which the opera is based.
• Multiple characters named Asteria appear in theDC Universe and theDC Extended Universe:^[17][18]
  • Asteria first appeared in the 1998one-shot issueElseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl; "her origin or background isn't touched upon, but she does seem to be Amazon stock".^[17]
  • Another version of Asteria appeared in the 2018 issuesJustice League/Aquaman: Drowned Earth Special #1 andJustice League #11. In the first issue, Asteria is a two-headed metallic bird.^[17][18] In the second issue,Wonder Woman informsAquaman that "the name 'Asteria' belonged to an ancient Amazonian who fought against the gods. Her name means, of the sky".^[18]
  • In the 2020 filmWonder Woman 1984,Asteria is portrayed byLynda Carter. The character is depicted as the greatest Amazon warrior. When mankind enslaved the Amazonian women, Asteria fought for their freedom, allowingQueen Hippolyta to free them and their race to escape to the island known asThemyscira. The island created byZeus allowed the Amazons to remain hidden from mankind, while Asteria was venerated by the Amazons as a fallen hero. During thepost-credits sequence, she is seen walking amongst a crowded street and saves a pedestrian from being hit by a falling object.^[19][20]
• Asteria is the codename of the Chapter 4 map inFortnite Battle Royale. This continues the trend of each map being named after a Greek deity whose name starts with the letter "A" (Athena for Chapter 1,Apollo for Chapter 2, andArtemis for Chapter 3).^[21]

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• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Diodorus Siculus,The Library of History translated byCharles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes.Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus,Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod,Theogony fromThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Suida,Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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• Danaïdes
• Amazons (Greek mythology)
• Mythological Thracian women
• Metamorphoses into birds in Greek mythology
• Mythological Thessalians
• Mythology of Phocis
• Greek mythology of Thrace
• Sacrificial victims of the Minotaur

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