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• Idaea was, according to Diodorus Siculus, the mother of the Kuretes (Κουρῆτες), the armed dancers who guarded the infant Zeus in a cave on Cretan Mount Ida.

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• Idaea, the mother of the Kuretes (Κουρῆτες), the armed dancers who guarded the infant Zeus in a cave on Cretan Mount Ida.

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Ancient

Apollodorus

3.12.1

Electra, daughter of Atlas, had two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, by Zeus. Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt. Grieved at his brother's death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the opposite mainland. That country was ruled by a king, Teucer, son of the river Scamander and of a nymph Idaea, and the inhabitants of the country were called Teucrians after Teucer. Being welcomed by the king, and having received a share of the land and the king's daughter Batia, he built a city Dardanus, and when Teucer died he called the whole country Dardania.

3.15.3

Cleopatra was married to Phineus, who had by her two sons, Plexippus and Pandion. When he had these sons by Cleopatra, he married Idaea, daughter of Dardanus. She falsely accused her stepsons to Phineus of corrupting her virtue, and Phineus, believing her, blinded them both.¹ But when the Argonauts sailed past with Boreas, they punished him.2

¹ See above, Apollod. 1.9.21. The story of Phineus and his sons is related by the Scholiast on Sophocles (Antigone, 981), referring to the present passage of Apollodorus as his authority. The tale was told by the ancients with many variations, some of which are noticed by the Scholiast on Sophocles (Antigone, 981). According to Soph. Ant. 969ff., it was not their father Phineus, but their cruel stepmother, who blinded the two young men, using her shuttle as a dagger. The names both of the stepmother and of her stepsons are variously given by our authorities. See further Diod. 4.43ff.; Scholiast on Hom. Od. xii.69 (who refers to Asclepiades as his authority); Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.178; Hyginus, Fab. 19; Serv. Verg. A. 3.209; Scholiast on Ovid, Ibis 265, 271; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 9, 124 (First Vatican Mythographer 27; Second Vatican Mythographer 124). According to Phylarchus, Aesculapius restored the sight of the blinded youths for the sake of their mother Cleopatra, but was himself killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt for so doing. See Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos i.262, p. 658, ed. Bekker; compare Scholiast on Pind. P. 3.54(96); Scholiast on Eur. Alc. 1. Both Aeschylus and Sophocles composed tragedies entitled Phineus. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 83, 284ff.; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 311ff.

Clement of Alexandria

... I shall now speak of his [Zeus's] adulteries. He defiled ... Idaea, the daughter of Minos, of whom Asterion [was born]; ...

Diodorus Siculus

3.61.1–2

Cronus, the brother of Atlas, the myth continues, who was a man notorious for his impiety and greed, married his sister Rhea, by whom he begat that Zeus who was later called "the Olympian." But there had been also another Zeus, the brother of Uranus [p. 283] and a king of Crete, who, however, was far less famous than the Zeus who was born at a later time. 2 Now the latter was king over the entire world, whereas the earlier Zeus, who was lord of the above-mentioned island, begat ten sons who were given the name of Curetes; and the island he named after his wife Idaea, and on it he died and was buried, and the place which received his grave is pointed out to our day.

4.75.1

The first to rule as king over the land of Troy p55 was Teucrus, the son of the river-god Scamandrus and a nymph of Mt. Ida;²⁷

²⁷ This nymph was later known by the name Idaea.

4.43.3–4

At that time, however, the tale continues, when the storm had abated, the chieftains landed in Thrace on the country which was ruled by Phineus. Here they came upon two youths who by way of punishment had been shut within a burial vault where they were being subjected to continual blows of the whip; these were sons of Phineus and Cleopatra, who men said was born of Oreithyïa, the daughter of Erechtheus, and Boreas, and had unjustly been subjected to such a punishment because of the unscrupulousness and lying accusations of their mother-in‑law. 4 For Phineus had married Idaea, the daughter of Dardanus the king of the Scythians, and yielding to her every desire out of his love for her he had believed her charge that his sons by an earlier marriage had insolently offered violence to their mother-in‑law out of a desire to please their mother.

Pausanias

10.12.3

These statements [Herophile] made in her poetry when in a frenzy and possessed by the god. Elsewhere in her oracles she states that her mother was an immortal, one of the nymphs of Ida, while her father was a human. These are the verses:

"I am by birth half mortal, half divine;

An immortal nymph was my mother, my father an eater of corn;

On my mother's side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was red

Marpessus, sacred to the Mother, and the river Aidoneus."

Modern

Gantz

pp. 351–352

p. 355

Grimal

s.v. Idaea p. 227

Idaea (Ἰδαια) This is a name which means 'she who comes from Ida' or 'she who lives on Ida'. Several heroines have the name, including:

1. A Nymph who from her union with the river-god Scamander gave birth to Teucer, the king of the Teucrians on the coast of Asia Minor opposite Samothrace (Table 7).

2. One of the daughters of Dardanus and so a great-granddaughter of the preceding Idaea. She married Phineus, the king of Thrace, as his second wife. She was responsible for the misfortunes that fell on PHINEUS by her slandering of the children of his first wife, Cleopatra, the daughter of Boreas (see BOREADES).

p. 490

Idaea (1) Apollod. Bibl. 3.12.1; Diod. Sic. 4.75; Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. 29; Serv. on Virgil, Aen. 3.109. (2) Schol. on Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 2.178; Sophocles, Phineus (lost tragedy, Jebb- Pearson II, p. 311ff.); Ant. 980; Diod Sic. 4.43; Ovid. Rem. Am. 454.

Smith

s.v. Idaea

• )Idai/a), the name of several nymphs (Paus. 10.12.4: see TEUCRUS, PHINEUS); but it occurs also as a surname of Cybele. (Verg. A. 10.252; Hesych. s. v.)

Tripp

s.v. Idaea (1), p. 315

The second wife of PHINEUS (1). Idaea bore two sons, Thynius and Mariandynus. Her lying accusations against her stepsons led her husband to imprison and torture them. They were rescued by the Argonauts. Idaea was sent home to her father, the Scythian king Dardanus, who condemned her to death.

s.v. Idaea (2), pp. 315–316

A nymph of Mount Ida, near Troy. Teucer, the indigenous king [p. 316] of the region of Troy, was called a son of Idaea and Scamander, god of a local river. Teucer's daughter, Bateia, and the immigrant Dardanus were forebears of the Trojan royal line. [Apollodorus 3.21.1.]

Text edited by Markx121993

FROM: *Idaea or Ida, the mother of the ten Kuretes (Κουρῆτες), according to Diodorus Siculus, the dancers who venerated the mother of the gods Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele. Her cult is associated with Mount Ida in Crete.

TO: *Idaea or Ida or Ide, the mother of the ten Kuretes (Κουρῆτες), according to Diodorus Siculus, the dancers who venerated the mother of the gods Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele. Her cult is associated with Mount Ida in Crete. In Bibliotheca, Ide together with her sister Adrasteia were the daughters of Melisseus and they were the Idaean nymphs to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be nurtured. Idaea was represented, with other nymphs, on the altar of Athena Alea at Tegea. According to Clement, she was the daughter of Minos and mother of Asterion. Idaea maybe the nymph of Ida who mothered Cres (eponym of Crete) by the god Zeus. This Cres was said to be the father of Talos, the automaton who guarded Crete.