Astĕria

, a daughter of Ceus, one of the Titans, by Phœbe daughter of Cœlus and Terra. She married Perses son of Crius, by whom she had the celebrated Hecate. She enjoyed for a long time the favours of Jupiter, under the form of an eagle; but falling under his displeasure, she was changed into a quail, called Ortyx by the Greeks; whence the name of Ortygia , given to that island in the Archipelago, where she retired. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 6 , fable 4.— Hyginus , fable 58.— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 2 , . ――A town of Greece, whose inhabitants went to the Trojan war. Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 , li. 782 .――One of the daughters of Danaus, who married Chætus son of Ægyptus. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 .――One of the daughters of Atlas, mother of Œnoma us king of Pisa. Hyginus , fable 250.――A mistre of Gyges, to whom Horace wrote three odes to comfort her during her lover’s absence.