Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Asteria

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Asteria

（Ἀστερία). A daughter of the Titan Coeus and the Titanid Phoebé, sister of Leto, and mother of Hecaté by Perses, son of the Titan Crius. She is said to have turned into a quail (ὄρτυξ) and plunged into the sea to escape the advances of Zeus. After her the island of Delos (q.v.) was first called Asteria, and later Ortygia.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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