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Astarte is an ancient Semitic goddess.

Contents

• Arts
• Biology
• Places
• Use in fiction
• Other uses
• See also

Astarte may also refer to:

Arts

• Astarte, an 1891 collection of erotic verse by Pierre Louÿs
• Astarté , a 1901 opera by Xavier Leroux
• Astarte, a 1931 novel by Swedish author Karin Boye
• Astarte (ballet), a 1967 ballet by Robert Joffrey
• Astarte (band), an all-female black metal band from Athens, Greece
• Astarte, a painting by John Singer Sargent

Biology

• Astarte (bivalve), a bivalve mollusc genus in the family Astartidae
  • Astarte borealis , a bivalve mollusc species in this genus
  • Astarte castanea , idem
  • Astarte elliptica , idem
  • Astarte subaequilatera , idem
  • Astarte undata , idem
• Boloria astarte , a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
• Callicore astarte , a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
• Astartea , a genus of flowering plant in western Australia

Places

• Mount Astarte, a mountain in the Pantheon Range of British Columbia, Canada
• Astarte Horn, a mountain peak on Alexander Island, Antarctica
• 672 Astarte, a minor planet discovered in 1908

Use in fiction

• Astarte, sometimes Sailor Astarte, an original character in Sailor Moon musicals
• In Zadig , Astarté is the queen of Babylon and Zadig's final love interest
• In Manfred , by Lord Byron, Astarte is the name of Manfred's lost love
• Astartes, or Adeptus Astartes, a Warhammer 40,000 table-top wargame army more commonly known as the Space Marines
• A Gallentean Command Ship class in the game Eve Online

Other uses

• Prix d'Astarté, former title of the Prix Rothschild, a Group 1 flat horse race in France
• Astarte Education, a Norwegian private school opened in 2007 by Princess Märtha Louise
• HMS Astarte, a cancelled Amphion-class submarine

See also

• Ishtar (disambiguation), the Mesopotamian counterpart

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