Ida (1) Greek The Nymph who with her sister, Adrastia, and the goat-nymph, Amalthea, tended the infant god Zeus on Mount Ida (2) in Crete.
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Ida (1) Greek The Nymph who with her sister, Adrastia, and the goat-nymph, Amalthea, tended the infant god Zeus on Mount Ida (2) in Crete. Ida (2) Greek Mountain in the center of Crete, associated with the childhood of Zeus. Ida (3) Greek A mountain range in Mysia, northwest Asia Minor. It was from here that Zeus seized the beautiful youth Ganymede and took him to Olympus to be a cupbearer to the gods. It was the scene of the Judgment of Paris (see under Paris). From here, the gods watched the battles of Troy during the Trojan War.
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