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 Translation for 'Adrasteia' from English to Russian
NOUN   Adrasteia | -
миф.
Адрастея {ж}
Adrasteia
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Translation for 'Adrasteia' from English to Russian

Adrasteia
Адрастея {ж}миф.
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Usage Examples English
  • Adrasteia, like Nemesis, was also associated with Artemis.
  • It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 18 August 1884 in Vienna, and was named after the Greek nymph Adrasteia.
  • According to Diodorus Siculus, Zeus rewarded Ida and Adrasteia by turning them into the constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
  • "Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia" or "The Childhood of Jupiter" is a 17th-century painting by Jacob Jordaens, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Germany.
  • The nymph Adrasteia milks the goat Amalthea, to give the milk to the child Zeus.

  • She was sometimes called Adrasteia, probably meaning "one from whom there is no escape"; her epithet "Erinys" ("implacable") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.
  • Parium (or Parion; [...]) was a Greek city of Adrasteia in Mysia on the Hellespont. Its bishopric was a suffragan of Cyzicus, the metropolitan see of the Roman province of Hellespontus.
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