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Amalthaea
or Am·al·the·a
[ am-uhl-thee-uh ]
noun
, Classical Mythology.
- a nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on the milk of a goat: in some versions she is the goat rather than a nymph.
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Others claim that it was the goat of Amalthaea, which fed Jupiter with her milk.
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Aulus Gellius says that Amalthaea burnt the books in the king's presence.
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It obtained its name because it was covered with the skin of the goat Amalthaea, which nourished Jupiter.
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