In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Adrasteia (/ˌædrəˈstiːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια, Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea...
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In Greek mythology, Adrasteia (/ˌædrəˈstiːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια (Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), "inescapable"), Adrastea, Adrestea or Adrestia (Ἀδρήστεια)...
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Adrasteia or Adrastea (Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια, Homeric Ἀδρήστεια) was the name of a region, city, and valley of the ancient Troad or of Mysia, which...
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Adrastea, Adrasteia, Adrestea or Adrestia may refer to: Adrasteia or Adrestia (mythology) Adrastea (moon), the second of Jupiter's known moons Adrastea...
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Greek: Μελισσεύς means 'bee-man' or 'honey-man'), the father of the nymphs Adrasteia, Ida and Althaea who were nurses of the infant Zeus on Crete. His parentage...
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and as such is akin to Atë and the Erinyes. She was sometimes called Adrasteia, probably meaning "one from whom there is no escape"; her epithet Erinys...
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nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse, and they fed Zeus on the milk of the goat Amalthea. According to Hyginus, Ida and Adrasteia (along...
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form the ordered universe. Ananke is the mother (or another identity) of Adrasteia, the distributor of rewards and punishments. In the Orphic hymns, Aphrodite...
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babies too were laid in a winnowing-fan. In Callimachus's Hymn to Zeus, Adrasteia lays the infant Zeus in a golden líknon, her goat suckles him and he is...
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translator and composer Melisseus (or Melissus), father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus on Crete Melissus (another mythological figure)...
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