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Idaea

Ἰδαία

(Ἰδαία), the name of several nymphs (Paus. 10.12.4: see TEUCRUS, PHINEUS); but it occurs also as a surname of Cybele. (Verg. A. 10.252; Hesych. s. v.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.