Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Adrasteia.
The gallery
Base with Reliefs of the Birth of Zeus
Unknown (Roman), 2nd century AD
Capitoline statue base: Curetes clash shields while the infant Zeus is nursed in the Cretan cave — the Dictaean childhood Adrasteia and Ida share with Amalthea in the nurse tradition. Musei Capitolini, Rome.
Rhea Presents the Swaddled Stone to Cronus (relief)
Unknown (Roman), c. 2nd century AD
The trick that sends Zeus to Crete: Rhea hands Cronus the swaddled stone so the child can be raised by the mountain nurses — Adrasteia's Dictaean charge begins where this relief ends.
In play
Adrasteia
Cretan nymph (daughter of Melisseus in some accounts) entrusted with infant Zeus beside Ida — later overlapped with Nemesis/Inescapable as a mountain goddess.
Curetes
The armed dancers who drowned the infant's cries with their shields — Adrasteia's companions in the cave of Zeus' rearing.
Rhea (mythology)
The mother who hid Zeus from Cronus and committed him to the Cretan nurses — Adrasteia's charge begins with Rhea's escape.