Idaea or Idaia (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαία) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology, it means "she who comes from Ida" or "she who lives on Ida",[1] and is often associated with Mount Ida in Crete, and Mount Ida in the Troad.

Figures

Those named Idaea include:

Etymology

The name is related with Mount Ida. In the Iliad (2.821 etc.), Ida[7] means wooded hill, and recalls the mountain worship in the Minoan mother goddess religion.[8] Three inscriptions in Linear A, which represents the Minoan language, bear just the name i-da-ma-te (AR Zf 1 and 2, and KY Za 2). The inscriptions may refer to the "mother goddess of Ida" (Ἰδαία μάτηρ).[9][10]

Νotes

  1. Grimal, s.v. Idaea, p. 227
  2. Grimal, s.v. Idaea, p. 227; Tripp, s.v. Idaea (2), pp. 315–316; Diodorus Siculus, 4.75.1; Apollodorus, 3.12.1
  3. Grimal, s.v. Idaea p. 227; Tripp, s.v. Idaea (1), p. 315; Apollodorus, 3.15.3; Diodorus Siculus, 4.43.3–4, 4.44.3–4
  4. Diodorus Siculus, 3.61.2
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Krētē
  6. Clementine Recognitions 10.21
  7. Ἴδα; alternative dialectal form (Ionic):Ἴδη Idē.
  8. Nagy, Gregory (1963). "Greek-Like Elements in Linear A". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Harvard University Press (4): 200.
  9. F.Schachermeyer(1964) Die Minoische Kultur des alten Kreta, p. 266 . W. Kohlhammer Stuttgart.
  10. Richard Valance

References

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