(in Latin Amalthéa) A nymph or, in other versions of the story, a she-goat which nourished the infant → Zeus with her milk, and was rewarded by being transferred to the heavens where she figures as Capella (Latin,=goat). A horn broken off...

In Greek mythology, Amalthea (in Greek, Αμαλθεια, Amaltheia) is the most often mentioned among foster-mothers of Zeus. Her name in Greek— "tender goddess"— is clearly an epithet, signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess,[1]...