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Asteria

In Greek mythology, a goddess who took the form of a quail (ortyx) when Zeus tried to rape her, and threw herself from heaven into the sea. Here she was changed into the island of Asteria (which had fallen ‘like a star’), or Ortygia, later known as Delos.

Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and sister of Leto. She married Perses, son of Helios, and became the mother of Hecate.
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Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.
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I suspect that the authoress in her mind makes Telemachus come back from Pylos to the Lilybaean promontory and thence to Trapani through the strait between the Isola Grande and the mainland--the island of Asteria being the one on which Motya afterwards stood.
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