Idaeus or Idaios (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαῖος) is a given name. People with the name include:
Mythology
- Idaeus, a Trojan, charioteer of Priam1
- Idaeus, a Trojan, son of Priam2
- Idaeus, a Trojan, the son of Dares1Nonnus of Panopolis,
- Idaeus, a son of Socus and one of the Korybantes3
- Idaeus, a son of Dardanus (son of Zeus)4
- Idaeus, one of the three sons (along with Corythus and Bunomus) that Helen of Troy had with Paris, according to Dictys Cretensis5
- Idaeus, an epithet of Zeus6
- Idaeus, an epithet of Herakles7
History
- Idaeus of Cyrene, Libya, an ancient Greek Olympic winner at foot-race. He won at 275 B.C.89
- Idaeus of Rhodes, ancient Greek epic poet10
- Idaeus, anyone/anything from or pertaining to Mount Ida
References
References
- Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary, Idaeus2
- Photius, Bibliotheca 190.37.
- Nonnus, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project., 13.135 ff.
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Dardanus
- Apollodorus, Library, 3.11
- Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary, Idaeus1
- Dactyl Heracles
- Perseus Encyclopedia, Idaeus
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.12.2
- Suda, iota, 91