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A daughter of Melisseus and Amalthea, and sister of Adrasteia, one of the Idaean nymphs, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be educated.1 She was represented, with other nymphs, on the altar of Athena Alea at Tegea.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 1.6.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 47.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.