User:Paul August/Idaea (mother of King Teucer)
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Apollodorus[edit]
- Electra, daughter of Atlas, had two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, by Zeus. Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt. Grieved at his brother's death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the opposite mainland. That country was ruled by a king, Teucer, son of the river Scamander and of a nymph Idaea, and the inhabitants of the country were called Teucrians after Teucer. Being welcomed by the king, and having received a share of the land and the king's daughter Batia, he built a city Dardanus, and when Teucer died he called the whole country Dardania.
Diodorus Siculus[edit]
- The first to rule as king over the land of Troy [p. 55] was Teucrus, the son of the river-god Scamandrus and a nymph of Mt. Ida;27
- 27 This nymph was later known by the name Idaea.
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s.v. Idaea p. 227
- Idaea (Ἰδαια) This is a name which means 'she who comes from Ida' or 'she who lives on Ida'. Several heroines have the name, including:
- 1. A Nymph who from her union with the river-god Scamander gave birth to Teucer, the king of the Teucrians on the coast of Asia Minor opposite Samothrace (Table 7).
p. 490
- Idaea (1) Apollod. Bibl. 3.12.1; Diod. Sic. 4.75; Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. 29; Serv. on Virgil, Aen. 3.109.
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s.v. Idaea (2), pp. 315–316
- A nymph of Mount Ida, near Troy. Teucer, the indigenous king [p. 316] of the region of Troy, was called a son of Idaea and Scamander, god of a local river. Teucer's daughter, Bateia, and the immigrant Dardanus were forebears of the Trojan royal line. [Apollodorus 3.21.1.]