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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Ida
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
None
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

2

Mt. Ida

Alternative name · Direct

Mount Ida

Alternative name · Hypothetical

Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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AnchisesCharacter1 observation
·Direct

Anchises had lain with Venus on the slopes of Mount Ida.

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“whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida”
VenusDeity1 observation
·Direct

Venus had lain with Anchises on the slopes of Mount Ida.

See evidence text
“whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida”
JoveDeity9 observations
·Direct

Jove reaches Ida before stopping on its explicitly named Gargarus crest.

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“After a while he reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Gargarus, where are his grove and fragrant altar. There the father of gods and men stayed his horses, took them from the chariot, and hid them in a thick cloud; then he took his seat all glorious upon the topmost crests”
·Direct

Jove is physically positioned on Ida when he thunders and sends lightning toward the Achaeans.

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“Then he thundered aloud from Ida, and sent the glare of his lightning upon the Achaeans”
·Direct

Jove is physically present on the heights of Ida when he thunders three times.

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“thrice did Jove thunder from the heights of Ida in token to the Trojans”
·Hypothetical

Juno hypothetically presents Jove as sitting alone on Ida if the other gods aid the Danaans.

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“he would have to sit there sulking alone on Ida”
·Direct

Jove is physically present on Ida when he sees the approaching goddesses.

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“But father Jove when he saw them from Ida was very angry”
·Direct

Jove descended and sat on the crest of Ida.

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“the father of gods and men came down from heaven and took his seat, thunderbolt in hand, upon the crest of many-fountained Ida”
·Direct

Jove looked down on the battle from Ida.

See evidence text
“the son of Saturn as he looked down from Ida”
·Direct

Jove woke while lying on the crests of Ida.

See evidence text
“Jove now woke on the crests of Ida, where he was lying with golden-throned Juno by his side”
·Reported

Hecuba described Jove as sitting on Ida and looking over Troy.

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“the son of Saturn lord of the whirlwind, who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy”
Jove’s chariotItem1 observation
·Direct

Jove’s chariot is carried without interruption to explicitly named Ida, where its horses are removed at Gargarus.

See evidence text
“After a while he reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Gargarus, where are his grove and fragrant altar. There the father of gods and men stayed his horses, took them from the chariot, and hid them in a thick cloud; then he took his seat all glorious upon the topmost crests”
Jove’s horsesAnimal1 observation
·Direct

Jove’s horses are carried without interruption to explicitly named Ida and are stopped there at Gargarus.

See evidence text
“After a while he reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Gargarus, where are his grove and fragrant altar. There the father of gods and men stayed his horses, took them from the chariot, and hid them in a thick cloud; then he took his seat all glorious upon the topmost crests”
Jove’s golden scalesItem1 observation
·Direct

Jove’s golden scales remain physically in his hands on Ida immediately before he thunders from there.

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“the sire of all balanced his golden scales, and put two fates of death within them, one for the Trojans and the other for the Achaeans. He took the balance by the middle, and when he lifted it up the day of the Achaeans sank; the death-fraught scale of the Achaeans settled down upon the ground, while that of the Trojans rose heavenwards. Then he thundered aloud from Ida”
AchillesCharacter3 observations
·Remembered

Achilles was physically in the glades of Ida during the remembered capture.

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“He then went on to kill Isus and Antiphus two sons of Priam, the one a bastard, the other born in wedlock; they were in the same chariot—the bastard driving, while noble Antiphus fought beside him. Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida”
·Remembered

Aeneas recalls Achilles attacking him and his cattle at Ida.

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“His spear has already put me to Right from Ida, when he attacked our cattle”
·Remembered

Achilles recalls chasing Aeneas down the slopes of Ida.

See evidence text
“Have you forgotten how when you were alone I chased you from your herds helter-skelter down the slopes of Ida”
AntiphusCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Antiphus was physically in the glades of Ida during the remembered capture.

See evidence text
“He then went on to kill Isus and Antiphus two sons of Priam, the one a bastard, the other born in wedlock; they were in the same chariot—the bastard driving, while noble Antiphus fought beside him. Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida”
IsusCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Isus was physically in the glades of Ida during the remembered capture.

See evidence text
“He then went on to kill Isus and Antiphus two sons of Priam, the one a bastard, the other born in wedlock; they were in the same chariot—the bastard driving, while noble Antiphus fought beside him. Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida”
JunoDeity2 observations
·Direct

Juno is one of the two who reach many-fountained Ida.

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“Juno did as he had said. She swore, and invoked all the gods of the nether world, who are called Titans, to witness. When she had completed her oath, the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them. Presently they reached many-fountained Ida”
·Direct

Juno lay beside Jove on the crests of Ida.

See evidence text
“Jove now woke on the crests of Ida, where he was lying with golden-throned Juno by his side”
SleepDeity1 observation
·Direct

Sleep is one of the two who reach many-fountained Ida.

See evidence text
“the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them. Presently they reached many-fountained Ida”
AeneasCharacter2 observations
·Remembered

Aeneas recalls being driven in flight from Ida by Achilles.

See evidence text
“His spear has already put me to Right from Ida”
·Remembered

Achilles recalls Aeneas fleeing down the slopes of Ida.

See evidence text
“Have you forgotten how when you were alone I chased you from your herds helter-skelter down the slopes of Ida”
ApolloDeity1 observation
·Remembered

Apollo is recalled herding cattle in the dales of Ida.

See evidence text
“while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida”
AgenorCharacter1 observation
·Hypothetical

Agenor imagines reaching the spurs of Ida and hiding in their underwood.

See evidence text
“till I reach the spurs of Ida and can hide in the underwood that is thereon”
HectorCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Jove recalls Hector burning offerings on the crests of Ida.

See evidence text
“Hector, who has burned the thigh-bones of many a heifer in my honour, one while on the crests of manyvalleyed Ida”
Achaean mulesAnimal1 observation
·Direct

The Achaean mules reached the heights of Ida with the woodcutting party.

See evidence text
“before them went the mules. Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of many-fountained Ida”

Claims

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·Direct

Ida is many-fountained and called the mother of wild beasts.

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“he reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts”
·Direct

Many-fountained Ida is called mother of wild beasts and bears a pine taller than every other tree on the mountain.

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“many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land, and the tops of the trees of the forest soughed under the going of their feet. Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine-tree—the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.”
·Direct

Ida is many-fountained, called mother of wild beasts, and contains topmost Gargarus.

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“many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, they found Jove seated on topmost Gargarus”
·Direct

Many-fountained Ida bore tall branching oaks that thundered down when felled.

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“heights of many-fountained Ida, they laid their axes to the roots of many a tall branching oak that came thundering down as they felled it.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“Ida”
·Direct
“rulest in Ida”
·Direct
“Mt. Ida”
·Direct
“many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts”
·Direct
“crest of many-fountained Ida”
·Direct
“all Ida”
·Direct
“many-fountained Ida”
·Direct
“the crests of Ida”
·Direct
“veiled Ida in cloud”
·Direct
“many-fountained Ida”
·Hypothetical
“till I reach the spurs of Ida”
·Direct
“the heights of many-fountained Ida”
·Direct
“who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 70

The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida. He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war.