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asteria

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Asteria (ăstēr`ēə), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, mother of Hecate by Perses. To escape Zeus' amorous advances, she turned into a quail, jumped into the sea, and became the isle of Ortygia (quail island).
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symbol of motherly affection. [Gem. Symbolism: Jobes, 144]
See : Love, Maternal
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Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
I suspect that the authoress in her mind makes Telemachus come back from Pylos to the Lilybaean promontory and thence to Trapani through the strait between the Isola Grande and the mainland--the island of Asteria being the one on which Motya afterwards stood.
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