Idaea
Idaea or Idaia (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαία) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology, it means "she who comes from Ida" or "she who lives on Ida",[1] and is often associated with Mount Ida in Crete, and Mount Ida in the Troad.
Figures
Those named Idaea include:
- Idaea, the daughter of the Scythian king Dardanus, and wife of Phineus, who falsely accused her stepsons, leading to their imprisonment and torture.[3]
- Idaea was, according to Cretan Mount Ida.
- Idaea, a nymph who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Asterion by Zeus also.[6]
Etymology
The name is related with
Νotes
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Idaea, p. 227
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Idaea, p. 227; Tripp, s.v. Idaea (2), pp. 315–316; Diodorus Siculus, 4.75.1; Apollodorus, 3.12.1
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Idaea p. 227; Tripp, s.v. Idaea (1), p. 315; Apollodorus, 3.15.3; Diodorus Siculus, 4.43.3–4, 4.44.3–4
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 3.61.2
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Krētē
- Clementine Recognitions 10.21
- ^ Ἴδα; alternative dialectal form (Ionic):Ἴδη Idē.
- ^ Nagy, Gregory (1963). "Greek-Like Elements in Linear A". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (4). Harvard University Press: 200.
- W. KohlhammerStuttgart.
- ^ Richard Valance
References
- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Clementine Recognitions, translated by Thomas Smith, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Editied by Alexander Roberts, and James Donaldson, Vol III. Tatian, Theophilus, and The Clementine Recognitions. T. and T, Clark, Edinburgh 1867. Online version at Wikisource
- Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History. Translated by C. H. Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Online version by Bill Thayer
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 9780631201021.
- Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970). ISBN 069022608X.