Goddess Astraea
The myth of Astraea illustrates the ancient Greek ideals of selflessness and faith by the way the Goddess stayed behind during the evolution of humanity, where they went from being naive creatures adored by the Gods to brutal mortals tempted by the ways of war, while the Goddess was the last of her kind on Earth.
Janiah Wallace
Ms. Kineman
Honors English 10-3
11 December, 2014
Appearance
- Young winged woman
- Bright eyed
Works Cited
Responsible
- Keeping Justice
- Protects innocent
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Strengths + Characteristics
Symbols + Family
Myth
- Characteristic of humanity is strength
- Shown when she stays behind
- Kind + passionate, believes in justice
- When she protects the innocent she shows that trait of justice.
- Stars & scales
- seen with sword + lightning bolt
- During beginning of Earth both Gods & mortals inhabited Earth
- Mortals became brutal, Gods left
- Astraea stayed behind
- Tryed to protect innocent
- Eventually left
- Be came constellation Virgo
Human qualities + Behaviours
Back to Thesis
- Father - Zeus
- Mother - Themis
- Loads of half siblings because of Zeus.
- Possible daughter of Astraeus and Eos.
- Innocence, fairness, and sensitive
- Protecting justice for the innocent shows fairness
- Leaving Earth shows sensitivity
Astraea has shown her natural traits of faith and selflessness in the way she stayed behind to help the innocent humans adapt to the change of the world.