Adrastea

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Adrastea
Adrastea may refer to:Adrasteia, daughter of Melisseus, King of Helicon in western Boeotia. She and her sister Ide (Ida) were the nurses of Zeus.Adrasteia, goddess of necessity, and daughter of Zeus (Jupiter) and  Ananke. Adrasteia, a mountain goddess worshipped in PhrygiaAdrastea (moon), the second of Jupiter's known moonsAdrastea was an informal name borne by Jupiter XII (now Ananke) from 1955 to 1975239 Adrastea, an asteroid
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Adrasteia
[Greek] "She whom none can escape". Properly an epithet of Rhea Cybele in her attribute of the Mother who punishes human injustice, which is a transgression of the natural right order of things. The Greeks and Romans identified her with Nemesis. 


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