Adrasteia
Adrasteia is a nymph who raised the infant Zeus alongside Ida. She is described as a daughter of either Oceanus or Melisseus, and in some accounts fed Zeus in the cave of the goddess Night while the Kouretes guarded the entrance.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in sources from late 1st century BC through 2nd century AD as nurse of Zeus.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Melissa, Night, Eros, Chronos, Moira, Ananke, Heimarmene, Aesa, Moros, Pepromene, Gaia, Helios, Themis, Hera, Melisseus, Aphrodite, Isis, Cronus, Kouretes, Moirai
- teacher of
- Zeus
- syncretized with
- Cybele, Nemesis, Bendis, Artemis (Diana)
- serves
- Rhea
- aspect of
- Ananke
- served by
- Idaean Dactyls
Mentioned by
- Gaia
- Helios
- Themis
- Hera
- Melisseus
- Aphrodite
- Isis
- Cronus
- Kouretes
- Moirai
- Neda
- Curetes
- Bendis
- Artemis (Diana)
- Oceanus
- Zeus
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“He is raised by the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the daughters of Melisseus, and protected by the Kouretes”
#8979 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In Greek mythology, Adrasteia (; Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια (Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), "inescapable"), Adrastea, Adrestea or Adrestia (Ἀδρήστεια) may refer to: Adrasteia, a nymph who helped raise the infant Zeus.”
#27499 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The name Adrasteia can be understood as meaning 'Inescapable'. Several ancient writers, regarding 'Adrasteia' as an epithet for the goddess Nemesis, derived the epithet from the name 'Adrastus'.”
#27535 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Ananke is the mother (or another identity) of Adrasteia, the distributor of rewards and punishments.”
#27580 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Heimarmene or Himarmene (; Ancient Greek: Εἱμαρμένη) is a goddess and being of fate/destiny in Greek mythology (in particular, the orderly succession of cause and effect, or rather, the fate of the universe as a whole, as opposed to the destinies of individual people). She belongs to a family of similar beings of destiny and fate, which have given us various modern concepts (such as Aesa, Moira, Moros, Ananke, Adrasteia and Pepromene).”
#28462 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001