Mount Ida

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sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida in Crete, and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey), which was also known as the Phrygian Ida in classical antiquity and is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called Mater Idaea ("Idaean Mother"),[1] while Rhea, often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses.[2]

Etymology

The term Ida (Ἴδη) is of unknown origin. Instances of i-da in

Ideas", whence its etymology.[7]

Mount Ida, Crete

Mouth of Idaean Cave, Crete

Psiloritis
. The surrounding area and mountain used to be thickly wooded.

Mount Ida, Anatolia

From the Anatolian Mount Ida,

Jupiter
(the Roman equivalent of Zeus).

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Homer Odyssey xix. 172; Plato, Laws i. 1; Diodorus Siculus, v. 70; Strabo x. p. 730; Cicero, De natura deorum, iii. 21
  2. ^ "Pin on Minoan Linear A, Mycenaean Linear B, Arcado-Cypriot Linear C: Progressive Grammar and Vocabulary". Pinterest.
  3. ^ Nagy, Gregory (1963). "Greek-Like Elements in Linear A". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (4). Harvard University Press: 200. p.200
  4. W. Kohlhammer
    Stuttgart
  5. Pergamum
    . Ovid Fasti 4.180-372 has it brought directly from Mt Ida. For discussion of problems attendant on such precise claims of origin, see Tacaks, in Lane, pp. 370 - 373.
  6. ^ Anne D. R. Sheppard, Studies on the 5th and 6th essays of Proclus' Commentary on the Republic, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttinger, 1980, p. 66.
  7. ^ William Smith, ed. (c. 1873). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. John Murray.
  8. ^ C.Michael Hogan. 2007. Phaistos Fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian

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