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In ___MASK13___ , two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida , the " Mountain of the Goddess ": Mount Ida in Crete ; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia ( in modern - day Turkey ) which was also known as the " Phrygian Ida " in classical antiquity and is the mountain that 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 "), while Rhea , often identified with Cybele , put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete . Thereafter , his birthplace was sacred to Zeus , the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses . In ___MASK13___ , Argo ( in Greek :  , meaning ' swift ') was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece . She was named after her builder , Argus . In ___MASK13___ , Phineus was a king of Thrace and seer who appears in accounts of the Argonauts ' voyage . In ___MASK13___ , Dardanus ( Greek :  ) was a son of Zeus and Electra , daughter of Atlas , and founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad . ___MASK13___ is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks , concerning their gods and heroes , the nature of the world , and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices . It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece . Modern scholars refer to and study the myths in an attempt to shed light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece and its civilization , and to gain understanding of the nature of myth - making itself . The mythical King Erichthonius / rkonis / of Dardania was the son of Dardanus , King of Dardania , and Batea , ( although some legends say his mother was Olizone , descendant of Phineus ) . He is said to have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous reign . Fundamentally , all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer , who says ( Samuel Butler ' s translation of Iliad 20 . 215 - 234 ) : `` In the beginning Dardanos was the son of Zeus , and founded Dardania , for Ilion was not yet established on the plain for men to dwell in , and her people still abode on the spurs of many - fountained Ida . Dardanos had a son , king Erichthonios , who was wealthiest of all men living ; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water - meadows , they and their foals with them . Boreas was enamored of them as they were feeding , and covered them in the semblance of a dark - maned stallion . Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him , and these , as they sped over the fertile plain , would go bounding on over the ripe ears of wheat and not break them ; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker . Erichthonios begat Tros , king of the Trojans , and Tros had three noble sons , Ilos , Assarakos , and Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men ; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Zeus ' cupbearer , for his beauty ' s sake , that he might dwell among the immortals . '' John Tzetzes and one of the scholia to Lycophron call his wife Astyoche , daughter of Simoeis . The Bibliotheca also adds Erichthonius ' older brother Ilus , who died young and childless ; presumably a doublet of the other Ilus , grandson of Erichthonius , eponym of Troy . Strabo ( 13 . 1 . 48 ) records , but discounts , the claim by `` some more recent writers '' that Teucer came from the deme of Xypeteones in Attica , supposedly called Troes ( meaning Trojans ) in mythical times . These writers mentioned that Erichthonius appears as founder both in Attica and the Troad , and may be identifying the two . Erichthonius reigned for forty six or , according to others , sixty five years and was succeeded by his son Tros . Thrace ( Modern , " Thráke " " Trakiya ") is a historical and geographic area in southeast ___MASK36___ , centered on the modern borders of Bulgaria , Greece , and Turkey . In antiquity , it was also referred to as ___MASK36___ , prior to the extension of the term to describe the whole continent . As a geographical concept , Thrace designates a region bounded by the ___MASK29___ on the north , Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south , and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east . The areas it comprises are southeastern Bulgaria ( Northern Thrace ), northeastern Greece ( Western Thrace ), and the European part of Turkey ( Eastern Thrace ). The biggest part of Thrace is part of present - day Bulgaria . In Turkey , it is also called Rumeli . The name comes from the Thracians , an ancient Indo - European people inhabiting Southeastern ___MASK36___ . The Troad ( or ) or Troas is the historical ___MASK89___ of the Biga Peninsula ( modern Turkish : " Biga Yarmadas ") in the northwestern part of ___MASK34___ , Turkey . This region now is part of the Çanakkale province of Turkey . Bounded by the Dardanelles to the northwest , by the ___MASK76___ to the west and separated from the rest of ___MASK34___ by the massif that forms Mount Ida , the Troad is drained by two main rivers , the Scamander ( Karamenderes ) and the Simois , which join at the area containing the ruins of Troy . The ___MASK14___ (" Argonautai ") were a band of heroes in ___MASK13___ , who in the years before the Trojan ___MASK16___ , around 1300 BC , accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece . Their name comes from their ___MASK52___ , " Argo ", named after its builder , Argus . " ___MASK14___ " literally means "" Argo " sailors ". They were sometimes called Minyans , after a prehistoric tribe in the area . Zeus (" Zeús ", ; Modern , " Días " ) was the ___MASK35___ and thunder god in ancient Greek religion , who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus . His ___MASK89___ is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter . His mythologies and powers are similar , though not identical to those of the Indo - European deities such as Indra , Jupiter , Perun , Thor , and Odin .