 Amalthea (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Amaltheia () is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus.The name "Amaltheia", in Greek "tender goddess", is clearly an epithet, signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess, whom the Hellenes, whose myths we know, knew to be located in Crete, where Minoans may have called her a version of "Dikte".