Idaios (epithet of Heracles)
Idaios ( Greek Ἰδαῖος ) is an epithet of Heracles in Greek mythology .
The nickname Idaios identifies Heracles as a member of the Idaean dactyls , whose home was both the Ida Mountains in Asia Minor and the Cretan Ida . The Cretan Daktyloi were the first to watch over the newborn Zeus child given to them by Rhea . The names of the Cretan brothers called Daktyloi were Heracles - the oldest of the Daktyloi -, Paionaios , Epimedes , Iasios and Idas .
The nickname is an older conception of Heracles, who came to Greece from Crete and founded the first Olympic Games , which were initially just a race between the brothers. From the five of the brothers the institution is said to have emerged to organize the Olympic Games every fifth year, counting the year of the event again and again. All of this is said to have happened before the Deukali Flood , because a descendant of this Heracles named Clymenus came to Olympia 50 years after the flood. Herakles Idaios is not to be equated with Herakles as the son of Alcmene , even in ancient terms .
The cult of Herakles Idaios can be grasped in many places and has been handed down not only for Olympia , but also in general in Elis , but also for Erythrai , Megalopolis Mykalessos and Thespiai .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Idaios 8 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 95 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Jessen : Idaios 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, column 1192 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Pausanias 5: 7, 6.
- ↑ Strabon 8, 355; 10, 474; Diodorus 5, 64; Cicero , De natura deorum 3, 42; Pausanias 5, 7, 6-8.
- ^ Pausanias 5, 7, 9.
- ^ Pausanias 5, 7, 9.
- ^ Pausanias 5: 8, 1.
- ^ Diodorus 5:64
- ↑ Pausanias 5: 8, 1; 5, 13, 8; 5, 14, 7.
- ↑ Pausanias 6:21 , 6; 6, 23, 3.
- ^ Pausanias 9:27 , 8.
- ^ Pausanias 8, 31, 3.
- ↑ Pausanias 9:19 , 5; 9, 27, 8.
- ^ Pausanias 9:27 , 8.