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Horn of Plenty

The horn of a goat that Zeus gave to the Nereid, Amathea.

When Zeus was born, his mother, Rheia (Rhea), hid him from his father, Kronos (Cronos), and placed the infant god in the care of Amathea.

Amathea nurtured Zeus and fed him goat’s milk; in some versions of the story she is a goat or a nymph rather than a Nereid; in gratitude, Zeus supposedly gave Amathea the horn of a goat that would give her anything she desired; this horn was called the Horn of Plenty which the Romans named cornucopia, from the Latin cornu copiae.

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