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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.

10.21

... Idaea, the daughter of Minos, of whom Asterion [by Zeus was born]; ...

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 [p. 55] 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.

Orestes

1453–1454
Ἰδαία μᾶτερ
μᾶτερ ὀβρίμα ὀβρίμα,
Mother of Ida, great, great mother!

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."

10.12.7

The Erythraeans, who are more eager than any other Greeks to lay claim to Herophile, adduce as evidence a mountain called Mount Corycus with a cave in it, saying that Herophile was born in it, and that she was a daughter of Theodorus, a shepherd of the district, and of a nymph. They add that the surname Idaean was given to the nymph simply because the men of those days called idai places that were thickly wooded. The verse about Marpessus and the river Aidoneus is cut out of the oracles by the Erythraeans.

s.v. Κρήτη

Κρήτη ἡ μεγίστη νῆσος, ἣν Kpentnv ἔφη Ἀρχίλοχος (fr. 271 West?) κατὰ πλεονασμόν. οἱ μέν φασιν ἀπὸ τοῦ Κουρής Κουρήτην καὶ Κρήτην κατὰ συγκοπήν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Κρητὸς τοῦ Διὸς καὶ ᾿Ιδαίας νύμφης παιδός, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Κρήτης μιᾶς τῶν Ἑσπερίδων, οἱ δὲ ἀπό τινος γηγενοῦς Κρητός.
Krete, die grösste Insel <Griechenlands>,?!5 die Archilochos (fr. 271 West?) unter Hinzufügung <eines e> Kre£te nannte. Die einen sagen, <man habe die Insel> nach dem Kureten Kurete und <dann> verkürzt Krete <genannt>; andere <sagen, die Insel sei benannt> nach Kres, dem Sohn des Zeus und der Nymphe Idaia, wiederum andere nach Krete, einer der Hesperiden, und weitere schliesslich nach einem gewissen erdgeborenen Kres.
Crete, the largest island <of Greece>,?!5 which Archilochus (fr. 271 West?) called Kre£te with the addition of an e. Some say that <the island> was named after the Curete, Curete, and <then> shortened to Crete; others <say that the island was named> after Kres, the son of Zeus and the nymph Idaea, still others after Krete, one of the Hesperides, and still others after a certain earth-born Kres.

10.3.12

But as for the Berecyntes,1 a tribe of Phrygians, and the Phrygians in general, and those of the Trojans who live round Ida, they too hold Rhea in honor and worship her with orgies, calling her Mother of the gods and Agdistis and Phrygia the Great Goddess, and also, from the places where she is worshipped, Idaea and Dindymene and Sipylene and Pessinuntis and Cybele and Cybebe.2 The Greeks use the same name "Curetes" for the ministers of the goddess, not taking the name, however, from the same mythical story,3 but regarding them as a different set of "Curetes," helpers as it were, analogous to the Satyri; and the same they also call Corybantes.

Aeneid

10.252
alma parens Idaea deum, cui Dindyma cordi
Gracious lady of Ida, mother of the gods, to whom Dindymus is dear

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pp. 351–352

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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.

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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.)

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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.]

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Brill's New Pauly

s.v. Idaea 1

Epithet of Cybele
One of many epithets of the mother of gods ( Cybele), named after her cult on the Phrygian Ida [2] (e.g. Eur. Or. 1453; Str. 10,469).
Walde, Christine (Basle)

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s.v. Idaea 2

Nymph of the Ida mountains
Nymph of Ida [2] in Phrygia, wife of the river god Scamander, mother of Teucer, the first king in the Troad, after whom the people of the Teucri are named (Apollod. 3,139; Diod. Sic. 4,75).
Zingg, Reto (Basle)

s.v. Idaea 3

Daughter of Dardanus
Daughter of Dardanus, great-granddaughter of [2], second wife of Phineus. She denounces her stepchildren Plexippus and Pandium to her husband. The latter blinds his sons only to be punished for this by the Argonauts (Soph. Ant. 966ff.; Apollod. 3,200; Diod. Sic. 4,43f.).
Zingg, Reto (Basle)

s.v. Idaea 4

Nymph
Nymph, who gives birth to the Sibyl Herophile in a grotto near Erythrae, the father being the shepherd Theodorus (Paus. 10,12,3f.).
Zingg, Reto (Basle)