Amalthea
Amalthea
- J. N. Bremmer
Extract
Amalthea, the goat that suckled *Zeus after his birth, when he was hidden in a cave to prevent his father *Cronus from devouring him (Callim. Hymn 1); later, rationalizing versions made the goat into a nymph. The myth was connected by Ovid (Fast. 5. 111–28) with another, perhaps originally independent, tradition about a (bull's) horn of plenty’ of the nymph Amalthea, (Pherec. FGrH 3 F 42).Subjects
- Greek Myth and Religion
