Editing Mount Ida (section)

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In [[Greek mythology]], two [[sacred mountain]]s are called '''Mount Ida''', the "Mountain of the Goddess": [[Mount Ida (Crete)|Mount Ida]] in [[Crete]], and [[Mount Ida (Turkey)|Mount Ida]] in the ancient [[Troad]] region of western [[Anatolia]] (in modern-day [[Turkey]]), which was also known as the ''[[Mount Ida (Turkey)|Phrygian Ida]]'' in classical antiquity and is mentioned in the ''[[Iliad]]'' of [[Homer]] and the ''[[Aeneid]]'' of [[Virgil]]. Both are associated with the [[mother goddess]] in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to [[Cybele]], who is sometimes called ''Mater Idaea'' ("Idaean Mother"),<ref>Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and Eugene Lane. 1996 ''Cybele, Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J. Vermaseren'', (Leiden: Brill), {{ISBN|90-04-10196-9}}, {{ISBN|978-90-04-10196-8}}</ref> while  [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], often identified with Cybele, put the infant [[Zeus]] to nurse with [[Amalthea (mythology)|Amaltheia]] at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses.<ref>Homer ''Odyssey'' xix. 172; Plato, ''Laws'' i. 1; Diodorus Siculus, v. 70; Strabo x. p. 730; Cicero, ''De natura deorum'',  iii. 21</ref>