Idaea Explained

Idaea or Idaia (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαία), which means "she who comes from Ida" or "she who lives on Ida",^[1] referring to either the Cretan Mount Ida, or the Phrygian Mount Ida in the Troad, is the name of several figures in Greek mythology:

• Idaea, a nymph, who was the mother, by the river-god Scamander, of King Teucer.^[2]
• 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 one of several epithets of Cybele, the great mother goddess of Anatolia, associated with Phrygian Mount Ida.^[4]
• Idaea, a nymph who was said to be the mother, by the shepherd Theodorus, of Erythraean Sibyl Herophile, and gave birth to her in a grotto at Erythrae.^[5]
• Idaea, the mother of the Kuretes (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Κουρῆτες), the armed dancers who guarded the infant Zeus in a cave on Cretan Mount Ida.^[6]
• Idaea, a nymph said to be the mother, by Zeus of Cres who was said to be the eponym of Crete.^[7]
• Idaea, daughter of Minos who was the mother, by Zeus, of Asterion.^[8]

References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Online version by Bill Thayer.
• Euripides, Orestes, translated by E. P. Coleridge in The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Volume 1. New York. Random House. 1938. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. . Internet Archive.
• Parada, Carlos, Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993. .
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnica: Volumes III: Κ-O, edited by Margarethe Billerbeck, contributions by Giuseppe Lentini and Arlette Neumann-Hartmann, De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2014. . Internet Archive.
• Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. (1924). LacusCurtis, Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Books 6 - 14.
• Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970). .
• Virgil, Aeneid [books 7–12], in Aeneid: Books 7-12. Appendix Vergiliana, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library No. 64, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Walde, Christine, s.v. Idaea 1, in Brill’s New Pauly Online, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and, Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry, published online: 2006.
• Zingg, Reto, s.vv. Idaea 2, 3, 4, in Brill’s New Pauly Online, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and, Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry, published online: 2006.

Notes and References

1. Grimal, s.v. Idaea.
2. Zingg, s.v. Idaea 2; Grimal, s.v. Idaea; Tripp, s.v. Idaea 2; Parada, s.v. Idaea 1; Diodorus Siculus, 4.75.1; Apollodorus, 3.12.1
3. Zingg, s.v. Idaea 3; Grimal, s.v. Idaea; Tripp, s.v. Idaea 1; Parada, s.v. Idaea 2; Apollodorus, 3.15.3; Diodorus Siculus, 4.43.3–4, 4.44.3–4
4. Walde, s.v. Idaea 1; Smith, s.v. Idaea; e.g. Euripides, Orestes 1453 - 1454; Strabo, 10.3.12; Virgil, Aeneid 10.252.
5. Zingg, s.v. Idaea 4; Pausanias, 10.12.3 - 7.
6. [Diodorus Siculus]
7. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
8. Clementine Recognitions 10.21.