Helike (Crete)

Helike ( Greek  Ἑλίκη ) is an Idean nymph of Greek mythology .

Together with Kynosura, she was a wet nurse of Zeus when he was hidden from his father in the Ida Mountains on Crete . As a thank you for her deed, Zeus immortalized her in the sky as the constellation Great Bear .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Helike 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 1985 ( digitized version ).