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 (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]
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Idaea.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Walde, s.v. Idaea 1; Smith, s.v. Idaea; e.g. Euripides, Orestes 1453–1454; Strabo, 10.3.12; Virgil, Aeneid 10.252.
- ^ Zingg, s.v. Idaea 4; Pausanias, 10.12.3–7.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 3.61.2, 3.71.2.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Κρήτη.
- ^ Clementine Recognitions 10.21.