Editing Adrasteia (section)

===Cybele===
Adrasteia seems to have originally been a Phrygian mountain goddess, probably associated with [[Cybele]], the mountain mother goddess of [[Anatolia]].<ref>Graf, [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/adrastea-e103890?s.num=276&s.rows=100&s.start=200 "Adrastea"] ("Goddess related to the mountain mother of Asia Minor, Cybele"); Hasluck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=McggyWzrvowC&pg=PA220 p. 220], ("Adrasteia has since Marquardt's time been generally acknowledged as a form of Cybele"); Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 pp. 499&ndash;500] ("There is no doubt that [Adrasteia] was a cult-name and probably a local title of Cybele detached at an early period"); Fries, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 p. 246] ("Originally a Phrygian mountain goddess"). See also Munn's discussion of Adrasteia, pp. 332&ndash;336, as one of the "Names of the Mother". However, note Leaf, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UtgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 p. 78], which says that: "It is commonly assumed ... that Adresteia was originally a form of the Great Mother of Asia Minor transported to Greece. The grounds for such an idea are very feeble."</ref> [[Priapus]], [[Cyzicus]], and the [[Troad]], where Adrasteia's cult was established, were also areas where Cybele was especially worshipped.<ref>Golann, p. 44; Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 p. 499].</ref> The two earliest mentions of Adrasteia both suggest an association with Cybele. Adrasteia's description, in a fragment from the lost epic poem [[Phoronis (epic poem)|''Phoronis'']] as a Phrygian mountain goddess served by the [[Idaean Dactyls]], is hardly distinguishable from Cybele herself,<ref>Golann, p. 44; Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 pp. 499&ndash;500]; Hasluck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=McggyWzrvowC&pg=PA221 p. 221]. For the Idaean Dactyls as servants of the "Mother", see Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 p. 43]; [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.3.22 10.3.22] (which says that of the various sources which describe the Idaean Dactyls, "all have assumed that they were ... attendants of the Mother of the gods"); [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.93.xml 1.1125&ndash;1127]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/17A*.html#7 17.7.5].</ref> while [[Aeschylus]]  locates Adrasteia in the "Berecynthan land", also the home of the "Mother of the Gods" (i.e. Cybele).<ref>Munn, pp. 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 333]; [[Aeschylus]], ''Niobe'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.167.xml fr. 158 Radt] [= [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:12.8.21 12.8.21]]. For the association of the "Mother of the Gods" with the "Berecynthan land", see   [[Pseudo-Plutarch]] ''De Fluviis'' [http://www.roman-emperors.org/Pseudo-P%20Revised.pdf 10.4-5] [= [[Agatharchides]] ''[[FGrHist]]'' 284 F 3].</ref>