- Alternative names
- Basileia Alce Dindymene Mother of the gods
- Information
- 'Mother of the Gods'
- Possibly the same as
- 👥 the Mothers
- Sometimes conflated with
- 👤 Demeter 👤 Rhea
- Daughter of
- 👤 Ouranos 👤 Meion (Phrygian) 👤 Dindyme
- Mother of
- 👥 the Corybantes 👤 Selene 👤 Helios
- Wife of
- 👤 Hyperion (Titan)
- Has children with
- 👤 Hyperion (Titan)
- Born at
- 🌍 Phrygia
- Derives etymology from
- 🌍 Mount Cybela
- Ruler of
- 🌍 the Land of the Atlantians
- Divine patron of
- 🌍 Mount Dindymon (E. Phrygia)
- Cult sites
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 Patrai (Achaia) 🌍 Acriai (Laconia) 🌍 Rock Coddinos (Lydia) 🌍 the Acrocorinth (Corinth) 🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Cabeiroi at Thebes 🌍 the Sanctuary of Despoina at Lycosoura (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia 🌍 Marpessos (Troad) 🏛️ the Steunos Cave (Phrygia) 🌍 Anagyrous (Attica) 🌍 the Sanctuary at Samothrace 🏛️ the Temple of Cybele at Cyzicos (Mysia) 🌍 Magnesia on the Maiandros (Caria) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Cybele at Pessinous (Phrygia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods on Mount Dindymon (Cyzicos) 🏛️ the Temple of Cybele (Boiotia?)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Aineias 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Artemis 👤 Asclepios 👤 Atalante 👤 Broteas (s. of Tantalos) 👥 the Charites 👤 Coronis (Thessalian) 👥 the Corybantes 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👤 Demeter 👤 Dionysos (Olympian) 👤 Hera 👤 Hyperion (Titan) 👤 Ouranos 👤 Hades 👤 Rhea 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Hermes 👤 Hippomenes (h. of Atalante) 👤 Isis 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Hecate (goddess) 👤 Persephone 👤 Marsyas (Phrygian) 👥 the Moirai 👤 Sarapis 👤 Selene 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 👤 Helios 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Mount Cybela 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Samothrace (island) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 River Maiandros (Caria) 🌍 Mount Tereia (Mysia) 👤 Myrine 👥 the Cabeiroi 👤 Alexanor 👥 the Dactyloi 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 👤 Midas 👤 Hygieia 👤 Attis 🌍 Patrai (Achaia) 🌍 Asea (Arcadia) 🌍 Acriai (Laconia) 🌍 Rock Coddinos (Lydia) 🌍 the Acrocorinth (Corinth) 🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Cabeiroi at Thebes 🌍 the Sanctuary of Despoina at Lycosoura (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia 🌍 Lampsacos (Troad) 🌍 Marpessos (Troad) 🌍 Pessinous (Phrygia) 👤 Creousa (Trojan) 🏛️ the Steunos Cave (Phrygia) 🌍 Anagyrous (Attica) 👤 Agon 👤 Euamerion 👥 the Satyrs ⭐ the Moon ⭐ the Sun 👤 Sabazios 👤 Maiandros (eponym) 👤 Anaxibia (Lydian) 👤 Archelaos (Lydian) 👤 Sister of Maiandros (name unknown) 👤 Berecynthos 👤 Sagaris 🌍 River Sagaris (Phrygia) 🌍 the Land of the Atlantians 👤 Meion (Phrygian) 👤 Dindyme 🌍 Nysa (Arabia Felix) 🌍 the Sanctuary at Samothrace 🏛️ the Temple of Cybele at Cyzicos (Mysia) 🌍 Latium (Italy) 🌍 Magnesia on the Maiandros (Caria) 👤 Turnus 🌍 Mount Dindymon (E. Phrygia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Cybele at Pessinous (Phrygia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods on Mount Dindymon (Cyzicos) 🏺 the Ships of Aineias 👤 Hyagnis (Phrygian) 🏛️ the Temple of Cybele (Boiotia?)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Pausanias 4.31.6 📖 Pausanias 3.12.9 📖 Pausanias 3.22.4 📖 Pausanias 1.31.1 📖 Pausanias 8.37.2 📖 Pausanias 8.44.3 📖 Pausanias 9.25.3 📖 Pausanias 5.13.7 📖 Pausanias 5.20.9 📖 Pausanias 7.20.3 📖 Pausanias 10.32.3 📖 Pausanias 8.30.4 📖 Pausanias 1.3.5 📖 Homeric Hymn 14 to the Mother of the Gods 1-6 📖 Pausanias 2.4.6-2.4.7 📖 Pausanias 2.11.5-2.11.8 📖 Pausanias 9.25.5-9.25.10 📖 Pausanias 5.20.2-5.20.3 📖 Pausanias 7.17.9-7.17.12 📖 Pausanias 10.25.9-10.26.2 📖 Pausanias 10.12.3-10.12.4 📖 Pausanias 5.14.4-5.14.10 📖 Danais fr. 3 West 📖 Lucian, Gout 30-53 📖 Pindar, Pythian 3 77-115 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 9 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 10 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 12 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.55.4-3.55.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.57.1-3.57.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.58.1-3.58.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.59.1-3.59.8 📖 Pindar fr. 70b Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 95 Snell-Maehler 📖 Ovid, Ibis 455-456 📖 Ovid, Ibis 457-458 📖 Ovid, Ibis 507-508 📖 Strabo 10.3.12 📖 Strabo 10.3.13 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 64-169 📖 Strabo 10.3.15 📖 Strabo 10.3.22 📖 Strabo 14.1.40 📖 Strabo 12.5.3 📖 Strabo 13.1.17 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 3 = fr. 193-193a Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 4 Pfeiffer = fr. 194-194a Pfeiffer 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.86-10.105 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.638-10.704 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.512-14.565 📖 Euripides, Helen 1301-1368 📖 Pliny, Natural History 35.109 ⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)
- Mentioned in Text
- Pausanias Pindar Homeric Hymn 14 to the Mother of the Gods Strabo Danais Lucian, Gout Pindar, Pythian 3 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers Diodoros, Library Ovid, Ibis Ovid, Metamorphoses Euripides, Bacchae Callimachus, Iambi Euripides, Helen Pliny, Natural History
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Pindar fr. 70b Snell-Maehler 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 64-169 📖 Hermesianax fr. 10 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 4 Rusten 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 6 Rusten 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 1-63
- Depictions
- 🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8061, B4346)
- Reported depictions
- 🌍 the Sanctuary of Asclepios at Titane (Argolid) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera at Olympia 🎨 Statue of Cybele in the Agora, Messene, by Demophon ( Not Extant) 🎨 Painting of Cybele on a Lion by Nicomachos ( Not Extant)
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Magnesia ad Sipylum (Lydia) 🌍 the Land of the Atlantians