Adraste Explained

In Greek mythology, Adraste (Ancient Greek: Ἀδρήστη) or Adreste may refer to the following:^[1]

• Adrasta, also Adrasteia, a daughter of Oceanus and possibly Tethys, thus considered to be one of the Oceanids. Together with her sisters Eidothea and Althaea (Amalthea^[2]) were nurses of young Zeus.^[3]
• Adraste, one of the companions of Helen when Telemachus came to Sparta seeking news of Odysseus. When Helen appeared to greet him, Adraste placed a chair for her, and Alcippe brought a rug of soft wool.^[4]

Notes

1. Book: Bell, Robert E.. Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. 1991. 9780874365818. 4.
2. An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Althaea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 182.
4. [Homer]

References

• Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. .
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• West, M. L. (1983), The Orphic Poems, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1983. .