AsteriA
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(asTriOs; Of the stars) Greek A second-
generation Titan goddess; daughter of Coeus
and his sister Phoebe; mother with the Titan Perses
of the goddess Hecate. Asteria was the goddess of
prophecy, or night dreams, and of communication
with the spirits of the dead (necromancy).
After the Olympian Gods defeated the Titans,
Asteria was not sent to Tartarus, as were most of the
Titans. Instead, Zeus, the greatest of the Olympians,
pursued her, but she resisted his advances. To hide,
she changed herself into a quail, then threw herself
into the sea. Some say she became the island that was
later known as Delos, the island where her sister,
Leto, came to give birth to her twins, Apollo and
Artemis (1).