She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem. |
Far more common are the direct iconographic or poetic references to the classical goddesses Diana, Cynthia and Astraea or to Petrarch's chaste maidens, Laura and Tuccia. |
In 1845 he discovered a fifth asteroid, which he named Astraea. |
Astraea is the starry Lady of the Scales, a sort of karmic, astral Venus who weighs one's deeds. |