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A peak, 2,457.7 m (8,058 ft) high, of central Crete. It is the highest elevation on the island and in ancient times was closely associated with the worship of Zeus.

 

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Name of two separate mountains, one in Turkey and the other on the island of Crete. The Turkish mountain is located in western Anatolia, near the site of ancient Troy, and once held a Classical shrine where Paris is said to have judged the beauty of three Greek goddesses. From its highest point, about 5,800 ft (1,800 m), the gods are said to have witnessed the Trojan War. The second mountain, in west-central Crete, is the island's highest point, reaching 8,058 ft (2,456 m). It also held a Classical shrine, which included the cave where Zeus, the chief deity of the Greek pantheon, was said to have been reared.

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Mount Ida (ī'də) , Gr. Ídhi, 8,058 ft (2,456 m) high, central Crete, Greece; the highest mountain on Crete.

 
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Mount Ida, Crete, overlooking the administrative and religious center of Knossos.

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Phrygian Ida in Classical times. Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Phrygia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called Mater Idaea ("Idaean Mother"),[1] and Rhea put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Consequently, Cretan Ida was also sacred to Zeus the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses.[2]

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Etymology

The name Ida is of unknown pre-Greek origin. The modern Turkish name for Mount Ida, Turkey, is Kaz Dağı (pronounced /kɑz dɑːɯ/).

Mount Ida, Crete

Main article: Mount Ida (Crete)
Mouth of Idian Cave, Crete

Mount Ida, Crete, is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess Rhea, and in which lies the legendary cave in which Zeus was reared. On the flank of this mountain is the Amari Valley, the site of expansion by the ancient settlement at Phaistos.[3]

Mount Ida, Turkey

Main article: Mount Ida (Turkey)

Turkey. From it, Zeus was said to have abducted Ganymede to Olympus. The topmost peak is Gargarus mentioned in the Iliad.

Notes

  1. ^ Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and Eugene Lane. 1996 Cybele, Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J. Vermaseren, (Leiden: Brill), ISBN 9004101969, 9789004101968
  2. ^ Homer Odyssey xix. 172; Plato, Laws i. 1; Diodorus Siculus, v. 70; Strabo x. p. 730; Cicero, De natura deorum, iii. 21
  3. ^ C.Michael Hogan. 2007. Phaistos Fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian

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