Amalthea

[ am-uhl-thee-uh ]

1. Classical Mythology. Amalthaea.
2. Astronomy. a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.

Amalthea

¹

/ ˌæmælˈθiːə /

noun

1. Greek myth AlsoAmaltheia
   1. a nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on goats' milk
   2. the goat itself

Amalthea

²

/ ˌæmælˈθiːə /

noun

1. an inner satellite of Jupiter

Example Sentences

But Rhea hid the child in a cave in the island of Crete, where the goat Amalthea nourished him with her milk.

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They fed the infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea.

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It is supposed to represent Amalthea, the goat which nursed Jupiter.

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Crete: where Jupiter had been concealed from his father Cronus, and nourished by the goat Amalthea.

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Jupiter himself, the greatest of all, was born in Crete, where he was suckled by the she-goat Amalthea.

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