Adamanthea – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Adamanthea
A
nymph in
Greek mythology,
Adamanthea helped raise the infant
Zeus to hide him from his father,
Cronus. Her name comes from the Greek word (
adamas), meaning "untameable" and , the Greek word for goddess.
Adamanthea
[Greek] The nymph who nursed Zeus (when Rhea gave Cronus a stone to swallow instead of the new-born Zeus). Cronus was supposedly able to see everything that occurred in the realms over which he had dominion (the earth, heavens, and the sea), but Adamanthea deceived him by hanging the baby Zeus (in his cradle) from a tree, so that suspended between earth, sea, and sky he was invisible to his father. There are MANY versions of this story and the nurse has a different name in each: Ida, Adrasteia, Neda, Helice, Aega, Cynosura.
