place
Mount Ida
Ida
also: Ida, Idaean
Mountain in Phrygia (Asia Minor) sacred to the Great Mother Cybele, the 'Idaean Mother'; Antisthenes invokes it to answer the slur on his Thracian, non-Greek descent.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §18.6 Mount Ida
Mountain in Phrygia sacred to Cybele, the 'Idaean Mother'; invoked by Antisthenes to parry the insult to his non-Greek descent.