Editing Rhea (mythology) (section)

== Iconography ==
[[File:Pergamon Museum Berlin (24828814285).jpg|thumb|Rhea (left) on the [[Pergamon Altar]] (2nd century BC)]]
Rhea only appears in Greek art from the fourth century BC, when her iconography draws on that of [[Cybele]]; the two therefore are often indistinguishable;<ref name=":1">Roller, Lynn E., [https://books.google.com/books?id=dXQkDQAAQBAJ ''In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele,'' University of California Press], 1999. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dXQkDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171 p. 171]. {{ISBN|9780520210240}}</ref> both can be shown wearing a crown (either a [[Mural crown]] or a [[Polos]]), seated on a throne flanked by [[lion]]s, riding a lion, and on a [[chariot]] drawn by two lions. In [[Religion in ancient Rome|Roman religion]], her counterpart Cybele was [[Cybele|Magna Mater deorum Idaea]], who was brought to Rome and was identified in as an ancestral Trojan deity. On a functional level, Rhea was thought equivalent to Roman [[Ops]] or ''Opis''.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}