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n. Greek Mythology.

The goddess of justice.


 
 
Classical Literature Companion: Astraea

Astraea, ‘starry maiden’ (later applied as an epithet to Queen Elizabeth I of England), the constellation Virgo, identified with Justice (Gk. Dikē), the last god to leave the earth, by Aratus. She was supposed to have lived among men in the Golden Age, retired to the mountains in the Silver Age, and finally, during the wickedness of the Bronze Age, fled to heaven.

 
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(ăstrē'ə) , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of justice; daughter of Zeus and Themis. Because of the wickedness of man, she withdrew from the earth at the end of the Golden Age and was placed among the stars as the constellation Virgo.

 
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