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In Greek mythology, Adrasteia (Greek: ????????? (Ionic Greek: ?????????),
"inescapable"; also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, Adastreia) was a
nymph who was charged by Rhea to raise the infant Zeus in secret to protect
him from his father Cronus (Krónos) in the Dictaean cave.Bibliotheke,
1.1.6. Adrasteia and her sister Ida, the nymph of Mount Ida, who also cared
for the infant Zeus, were perhaps the daughters of Melisseus. The sisters
fed the infant milk from the goat Amaltheia. The Korybantes, also known as
the CuretesCallimachus, Hymn to Jove, 47, whom the scholiast on Callimachus
calls her brothers, also watched over the child; they kept Cronus from
hearing him crying by beating their swords on their shields, drowning out
the sound of the child's cries.
Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica iii. 132ff) relates that she gave to the
infant Z
