Adamanthea
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In Greek mythology, Adamanthea or Adamanteia was a nymph who helped raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father, Cronus.[1] Her name comes from the Greek word ἀδάμας (adamas), meaning "untameable" and θεά, the Greek word for goddess.
Mythology
Adamanthea along with the goat-nymph
Gaia that his own offspring would overthrow his supreme position in the pantheon, Cronus swallowed all of his children immediately after birth. Rhea
, Zeus' mother and Cronus' wife, deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she instead gave to Adamanthea to nurse. Since Cronus ruled over the earth, the heavens and the sea, Adamanthea hid Zeus by dangling him on a rope from a tree, suspended between earth, sea and sky, and thus invisible to his father.
Note
- ISBN 9780874365818.
References
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
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