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== Family ==
According to [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'' and the ''[[Bibliotheca (Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'', Astraeus is one of the children of [[Crius]] and [[Eurybia (mythology)|Eurybia]].<ref name="The Theogony of Hesiod-p13">{{cite book|last=Hesiod|title=The Theogony of Hesiod|publisher=Forgotten Books|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jN6KasrDA04C&dq=Astraeus&pg=PA13| isbn=978-1-60506-325-6}}</ref> However, [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] wrote that he was descended directly from [[Tartarus]] and [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]] and referred to him as one of the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Gigantes]].

Astraeus married [[Eos]], the goddess of the [[dawn]]. Together as nightfall and daybreak, they produced many [[children]] associated with what occurs in the sky during [[twilight]]. In [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Astraeus and Eos produce the winds&mdash;namely [[Zephyrus]], [[Boreas]], and [[Notus]], with the fourth one, [[Eurus]], being included as his son in later sources&mdash;as well as [[Eosphorus]] and the stars.<ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=astraeus-bio-1&highlight=astraeus s.v. Astraeus]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:371-403 378&ndash;82].</ref><ref name="Dionysiaca">[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/214/mode/2up?view=theater 6.1]–[https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/220/mode/2up?view=theater 6.105]</ref> A few sources mention another daughter, [[Astraea]], the goddess of innocence and, occasionally, justice.<ref name="Anthon">{{cite book|last=Anthon|first=Charles|title=A Classical Dictionary|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1855|page=219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LAMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Astraeus+Hyginus&pg=PA219}}</ref>