AmalthaeaArticle Free Pass Amalthaea, in Greek (originally
Cretan) mythology, the foster mother of Zeus, king of the gods.
She is sometimes represented as the goat that suckled the infant
god in a cave in Crete, sometimes as a nymph who fed him the
milk of a goat. This goat having broken off one of its horns,
Amalthaea filled the horn with flowers and fruits and presented
it to Zeus, who, according to one version, placed it, together
with the goat, among the stars. In general, the horn was
regarded as the symbol of inexhaustible riches and plenty and
became the attribute of various divinities and of rivers as
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