Asteria (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Asteria (/əˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστερία, "of the stars, starry one") was a name attributed to the following eleven individuals:

In popular culture[]

Christoph Willibald Gluck gave the name Asteria to a character in his 1765 opera Telemaco, though the name did not appear in Homer's Odyssey, on which the opera is based.

The character Asteria appears in the DC Extended Universe, portrayed by Lynda Carter, beginning with Wonder Woman 1984. The character is depicted as the greatest Amazon warrior. When mankind enslaved the Amazonian women, Asteria fought for their freedom, allowing Queen Hippolyta to free them and their race to escape to the island known as Themyscira. The island created by Zeus allowed the Amazons to remain hidden from mankind, while Asteria who was believed to be dead, was venerated by the Amazons as a fallen hero. During the post-credits sequence at the end of the film, she is seen walking amongst a crowded street and saves a pedestrian from being hit by a falling object.

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  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff.
  2. ^ Nonnus, 17.282
  3. ^ Nonnus, 26.351–355
  4. ^ Nonnus, 17.282, 23.236, 26.355, 27.199–203, 33.151–152.
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  6. ^ Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 776, 16
  7. ^ Suda s.v. Alkyonides
  8. ^ Stephanus, s.v. Hydissos
  9. ^ Scholia on Apollonius, 1.139 citing Pherecydes
  10. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
  11. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 939
  12. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 450
  13. ^ Diodorus, 4.16.3
  14. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 4.8185 (painting on François Vase)

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