thea

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2024-10-28
Primary meaning place of the goddess
Literal translation goddess
Variants
thea
Edited by
place of the goddess astrological place

3rd astrological place

Dea Deus Bona fortuna ac Bonus daemon, quae a Graecis hactenus nominantur: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon

‘Goddess, God, Good fortune, Bad fortune, which are called by the Greeks as follows: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.1

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.59

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). thea (Lemma #994). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). thea (Lemma #994). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). thea (Lemma #994). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) thea (Lemma #994), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac994,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {thea ({Lemma} #994)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/994/},
}