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Amalthea (mythology)

This article is about the mythological figure. For other uses, see Amalthea (disambiguation).
Infancy of Zeus by Jacob Jordaens, early 1630s, now at the Louvre Museum
Amalthea and Jupiter's goat, by Pierre Julien, 1787 (Louvre Museum). A long line coiled around the goat's horns acts as a tether.

In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάλθεια) is a nurse of the infant Zeus, who raises him on Mount Ida in Crete. She is usually described as a nymph who suckles the child on the milk of a goat, though some Hellenistic writers make her the goat itself.

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