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What does Astraea mean?

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  1. (Greek) The Greek goddess of stars and justice; similar to Dike, equivalent to the Roman goddess Justitia.
  2. (astronomy) Short for 5 Astraea, the asteroid.
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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.

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