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Sculpture made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the XVII century and now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. It shows the goat Amalthea suckling the baby Zeus and a Faun. The future ruler of the gods was indeed concealed in a cave in the island of Crete, to escape from his father Cronus’s voracity, where he was nursed by the goat. Traditions are not coherent as regards the place in which Zeus spent his infancy: several localities disputed among themselves for the honor of having hosted the god on mountains or inside natural caverns, mostly on the island of Crete. According to a version, Zeus was born in a cave on the Mount Aigaion, the “mountain of the goat” (Hesiod, Theogony, 484). Ovid, in his Metamorphoses (IX, 88-89), says that Zeus, after he had grown up, took one of his nurse goat’s horns, providing it with the capability to be always replete of all its owner could wish: this object became known as the “horn of plenty” or cornucopia, symbol of abundance, wealth and fertility of nature, which was attributed to several deities.

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