Idaea

For the moths, see Idaea (moth).

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) by an earlier Zeus who was, according to a tradition attributed by Diodorus Siculus to the Phrygians, the brother of Uranus and king of Crete, rather than the Olympian Zeus.^[6]
• Idaea, a nymph said to be the mother, by Zeus of Cres who was said to be the eponym of Crete.^[7]
• Idaea or Ida, a daughter of Minos who was the mother of Asterion by Zeus.^[8]