Astraea (Ἀστραία) is from the Greek astron (star). **The Greek goddess of innocence and justice — the last of the immortals to live among humans during the Golden Age**. **As humanity's wickedness increased through the Silver, Bronze, and Iron ages, all the other gods abandoned the earth — Astraea was the last to leave, ascending to the heavens to become the constellation Virgo**, holding the scales of justice (the adjacent constellation Libra). **In Renaissance England, Queen Elizabeth I was hailed as Astraea returned** — Edmund Spenser invoked her in *The Faerie Queene*.
Featured in Hesiod's *Works and Days* and Ovid's *Metamorphoses*.
Astraea reduces to one — the number of star-maiden of justice.