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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASTRAEA  , in

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Greek
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legend, the "
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star
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maiden," daughter of
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Zeus and
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Themis, or of Astraeus the Titan and Eos, in which
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case she is identified with
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Dike . During the
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golden
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age she remained among men distributing blessings, but when the
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iron (or
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bronze) age came on, she was forced to withdraw, being the last of the goddesses to quit the
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earth . In the heavens she is amongst the signs of the
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zodiac as the
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constellation
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Virgo . She is usually represented with a pair of scales and a
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crown of stars . Ov . Mel. i . 15o; Juv. vi . 19;
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Aratus, Phaenomena, 96 .

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