Definitions for Amalthea

Amalthea Am·al·the·a

Spelling: [am-uh l-thee-uh]
IPA: /ˌæm əlˈθi ə/

Amalthea is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in Amalthea (aaaehlmt).

Definitions for Amalthea

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  1. a nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on the milk of a goat: in some versions she is the goat rather than a nymph.

Examples for Amalthea

They fed the infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea.

Crete: where Jupiter had been concealed from his father Cronus, and nourished by the goat Amalthea.

His white greyhound, Amalthea, lay at his feet, looking up at him with his soft black eyes.

But Rhea hid the child in a cave in the island of Crete, where the goat Amalthea nourished him with her milk.

After due consideration of these names, certain writers unanimously adopted that of Amalthea.

It is supposed to represent Amalthea, the goat which nursed Jupiter.

In Diodoros, Hammon loves the virgin Amalthea, who has a horn resembling that of an ox.

Jupiter himself, the greatest of all, was born in Crete, where he was suckled by the she-goat Amalthea.

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