Adrasteia

A Cretan nymph, daughter of Melisseus and Amalthea. She and her sister Ide reared Zeus in the Dictaean grotto. According to Apollonius Rhodius1 she gave Zeus a beautiful globe (σφαῖρα) to play with.

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Iconography

Several Cretan coins represent Zeus sitting on a globe.

References

Notes

  1. Argonautica iii, 132 ff.

Sources

  • Callimachus. Hymn to Zeus, 47.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 1.6.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.