In Greek mythology , Amalthea or Amaltheia ( Ancient Greek : Ἀμάλθεια ) is a nurse of the infant Zeus , who raises him on Mount Ida in Crete . She is usually described as a nymph who suckles the child on the milk of a goat, though some Hellenistic writers make her the goat itself.
23-629: (Redirected from Amalthean ) Amalthea may refer to: Amalthea (mythology) , the foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology Amalthea (moon) , a moon of Jupiter 113 Amalthea , a main-belt asteroid Cumaean Sibyl or Amalthea, a priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy Lady Amalthea, a character in The Last Unicorn Amalthea Cellars ,
46-534: A Christian apologist, saying: "Lactantius has a flow of eloquence worthy of Tully : would that he had been as ready to teach our doctrines as to pull down those of others!" Similarly, the early humanists called him the "Christian Cicero " ( Cicero Christianus ). A translator of the Divine Institutes wrote: "Lactantius has always held a very high place among the Christian Fathers, not only on account of
69-666: A Greek or Latin literary source nor any ritual or inscription to join the two. Hyginus describes this catasterism in the Poetic Astronomy , in speaking of Auriga, the Charioteer: Parmeniscus says that a certain Melisseus was king in Crete, and to his daughters Jove was brought to nurse. Since they did not have milk, they furnished him a she-goat, Amalthea by name, who is said to have reared him. She often bore twin kids, and at
92-651: A certain "L. Caecilius Firmianus". Lactantius had a successful public career at first. At the request of the Roman emperor Diocletian , he became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia ; the voyage from Africa is described in his poem Hodoeporicum (now lost). There, he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry ; he first met Constantine , and Galerius , whom he cast as villain in
115-630: A deity in many cultures having varying local traditions. Other similar names, such as Adrasteia , Ide, the nymph of Mount Ida , or Adamanthea , appear in mythology handbooks. In many literary references, the Greek tradition relates that in order that Cronus should not hear the wailing of the infant, Amalthea gathered about the cave the Kuretes or the Korybantes to dance, shout, and clash their spears against their shields. Amalthea's skin, or that of her goat, taken by Zeus in honor of her when she died, became
138-416: A version of " Dikte ". Ancient authors proposed several possible derivations of the name Amaltheia , including from ' ἀμάλθακτος ' amalthaktos , meaning "hard, firm", and from ' ἀμαλὴ θεία ' amalē theia meaning "divine goat". The common derivation is from ' ἀμέλγειν ' amelgein , which means "to milk, or suck". There were different traditions regarding Amalthea. Amalthea
161-532: A winery in New Jersey, United States Ships [ edit ] Amalthea (1863), a barquentine bombed by Anton Nilson in 1908 Amalthea (1881), a steam yacht built as Iolanthe , renamed Amalthæa , and later renamed Iolaire Amalthea (1985), a cargo ship Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Amalthea . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
184-510: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Articles with short description All set index articles Amalthea (mythology) The name Amalthea , in Greek "tender goddess", is clearly an epithet , signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess whom the Greeks knew to be located in Crete , where Minoans may have called her
207-573: Is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority," and Mark 13:32: "But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." He wrote apologetic works explaining Christianity in terms that would be palatable to educated people who still practiced the traditional religions of the Empire . He defended Christian beliefs against
230-514: Is said to have nursed Jove. Lactantius Lucius Caecilius Firmianus , signo Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325), was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I , guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus . His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish
253-471: Is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion ("Goat Mountain"), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage (the daughter of Oceanus , Helios , Haemonius, or—according to Lactantius — Melisseus ), who brought him up on the milk of her goat. The possession of multiple and uncertain mythological parents indicates wide worship of
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#1732869286725276-594: The persecutions . Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" (February 24, 303). As a Latin rhetor in a Greek city, he subsequently lived in poverty according to Saint Jerome and eked out a living by writing until Constantine I became his patron . The persecution forced him to leave Nicomedia, perhaps re-locating to North Africa. The emperor Constantine appointed
299-611: The 15th century and were first printed in 1465 by the Germans Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim at the Abbey of Subiaco . This edition was the first book printed in Italy to have a date of printing, as well as the first use of a Greek alphabet font anywhere, which was apparently produced in the course of printing, as the early pages leave Greek text blank. It was probably the fourth book ever printed in Italy. A copy of this edition
322-403: The criticisms of Hellenistic philosophers . His Divinae Institutiones ("Divine Institutes") were an early example of a systematic presentation of Christian thought. "I relate all those things on the authority of well-informed persons, and I thought it proper to commit them to writing exactly as they happened, lest the memory of events so important should perish, and lest any future historian of
345-594: The early fourth century we see a determined attempt to revive a more 'genuine' form of chiliasm." Lactantius quoted the Sibyls extensively (although the Sibylline Oracles are now considered to be pseudepigrapha ). Book VII of The Divine Institutes indicates a familiarity with Jewish, Christian, Egyptian and Iranian apocalyptic material. Attempts to determine the time of the End were viewed as in contradiction to Acts 1:7: "It
368-533: The elderly Lactantius Latin tutor to his son Crispus in 309-310 who was probably 10-15 years old at the time. Lactantius followed Crispus to Trier in 317, when Crispus was made Caesar (subordinate co-emperor) and sent to the city. Crispus was put to death by order of his father Constantine I in 326. The time and circumstances of Lactantius' death are unknown. Like many of the early Christian authors, Lactantius depended on classical models. Saint Jerome praised his writing style while faulting his ability as
391-581: The link to point directly to the intended article. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amalthea&oldid=1246900358 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Set index articles on ships Hidden categories: Short description
414-400: The persecutors should corrupt the truth." For unclear reasons, he became considered somewhat heretical after his death. The Gelasian Decree of the 6th century condemns his work as apocryphal and not to be read. Renaissance humanists took a renewed interest in him, more for his elaborately rhetorical Latin style than for his theology. His works were copied in manuscript several times in
437-523: The protective aegis in some traditions. In later sources, Amaltheia is placed in the sky as the constellation Capra, which sits near Capella , on the arm ( ôlenê ) of Auriga the Charioteer . Capra simply means "she-goat" and the star-name Capella is the "little goat", but some modern readers confuse her with the male sea-goat of the Zodiac , Capricorn , who bears no relation to Amalthea, no connection in
460-501: The reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics. He is best known for his apologetic works, widely read during the Renaissance by humanists , who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero". Also often attributed to Lactantius is the poem The Phoenix , which is based on the myth of the phoenix from Egypt and Arabia. Though the poem is not clearly Christian in its motifs, modern scholars have found some literary evidence in
483-454: The subject-matter of his writings, but also on account of the varied erudition, the sweetness of expression, and the grace and elegance of style, by which they are characterized." Like many writers in the first few centuries of the early church, Lactantius took a premillennialist view, holding that the second coming of Christ will precede a millennium or a thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. According to Charles E. Hill, "With Lactantius in
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#1732869286725506-644: The text to suggest the author had a Christian interpretation of the eastern myth as a symbol of resurrection. Lactantius was of Punic or Berber origin, born into a family that had not converted to Christianity. He was a pupil of Arnobius who taught at Sicca Veneria , an important city in Numidia (corresponding to today's city of El Kef in Tunisia ). In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native town, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions
529-416: The very time that Jove was brought to her to nurse, had borne a pair. And so because of the kindness of the mother, the kids, too were placed among the constellations. Cleostratus of Tenedos is said to have first pointed out these kids among the stars. But Musaeus says Jove was nursed by Themis and the nymph Amalthea, to whom he was given by Ops , his mother. Now Amalthea had as a pet a certain goat which
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