Jul 7, 2025
Musaeus tells how Zeus at birth was handed over by Rhea to Themis, and by Themis to Amalthea, who gave him to the Goat, the daughter of the Sun, to rear in the caves of Crete. When he grew up and went to war with the Titans, he used the skin of the Goat as his shield because it was invulnerable and bore a Gorgon’s face in the middle. He set the Goat in the sky as a constellation, while he himself acquired the epithet Aigiochos, 'goat-skin holder'
-fragment from Eratosthenes of Cyrene's Katasterismoi
