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Biographical A Cretan nymph to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be reared in the Dictean grotto. In this role, Adrasteia was assisted by her sister Ida and the Curetes, whom the scholiast on Callimachus calls her brothers. Apollonius Rhodius relates that she gave the infant Zeus a beautiful globe to play with, and on some Cretan coins Zeus is depicted sitting upon a globe. Daughter of Melisseus and Amaltheia, or of Ananke by an unspecified father. |
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