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Idaea (mother of King Teucer)

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In Greek mythology, Idaea or Idaia (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαία means 'she who comes from Ida' or 'she who lives on Ida') was a nymph, presumably of Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). She was the wife of the river-god Scamander, and a principal ancestor of the royal house of Troy.

According to Diodorus Siculus, and the mythographer Apollodorus, she was the mother, by Scamander, of Teucer, who was the first to rule as a king over the region known later as Troy. In addition to a son, Apollodorus goes on to mention two daughters of Scamander, presumably also by Idaea, Callirrhoe and Strymo. Callirrhoe became the wife of Tros, the eponymous hero of Troy and the Trojans. and Strymo, the wife of Laomedon the king of Troy, and father of Priam the king of Troy during the Trojan War.

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Ancient

Apollodorus

3.12.1

...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.

3.12.2

... On succeeding to the kingdom, Tros called the country Troy after himself, and marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, he begat a daughter Cleopatra, and sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede.³

³ Compare Hom. Il. 20.231ff.; Diod. 4.75.3. The name of the wife of Tros is not mentioned by Homer and Diodorus. She is called Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, by Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 29 and the Scholiast on Hom. Il. 20.231, who refers to Hellanicus as his authority. See Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana, ed. E. Maass, vol. ii. p. 321.

3.12.3

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And Ilus married Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus, and begat Laomedon,⁷ who married Strymo, daughter of Scamander; but according to some his wife was Placia, daughter of Otreus, and according to others she was Leucippe; and he begat five sons, Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, Podarces,⁸ and three daughters, Hesione, Cilla, and Astyoche; and by a nymph Calybe he had a son Bucolion.⁹

Diodorus Siculus

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.

Hellanicus

fr. 138 Fowler [= Scholia (T) on Homer's Iliad 20.231]

Tzetzes

On Lycophron

29 (p. 321)

Τεύκρου τοῦ Σκαμάνδρου καὶ ᾿Ιδαίας νύμφης. ... Τρωθς καὶ Καλλιῤῥόης τῆς Σκαμάνδρο

Modern

Grimal

s.v. Idaea

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).

p. 490

Idaea (1) Apollod. Bibl. 3.12.1; Diod. Sic. 4.75; Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. 29; Serv. on Virgil, Aen. 3.109.

Tripp

s.v. Idaea 2

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.]

Zingg

Brill's New Pauly

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)