Her mother, the celebrated Irene astarte Pratt, had written a poem in blank verse on "The Fall of Man;" one of her aunts was dean of a girls' college; another had translated Euripides-with such a family, the poor child's fate was sealed in advance.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
When Baal Melkarth had found and overcome astarte, after he had celebrated with her the holy marriage, he went to rest according to the Phenician myth in the waters of the western sea which he had warmed.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
But they came forward with decisive opposition to the worship of Baal and astarte, the strange gods which Ahab and Jezebel had introduced into Samaria and Israel.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker