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- The term Curetes (/kjʊəˈriːtiːz/; Gr****: Κουρῆτες) may refer to: Curetes or Korybantes, the dancing attendants respectively of Rhea or Cybele in Gr****...
- the Curetes (Ancient Gr****: Κουρῆτες) were legendary people who took part in the quarrel over the Calydonian boar. Strabo mentioned that the Curetes were...
- pronouncedly orgiastic nature of their rites". According to Oppian, the Curetes, who had been tasked with guarding the young Zeus, were turned into lions...
- Gr**** attempts to justify and rationalize the relationships of Dactyls, Curetes, and Corybantes were never fully successful. Strabo says of the mythographers:...
- to Gr**** mythology, Calydon was founded by Aetolus in the land of the Curetes, and was called Calydon, after the name of his son, Calydon. Calydon and...
- infant Zeus and were called Curetes. The Telchines were ****ociated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls, and Curetes. The Telchines were entrusted...
- story, he was then raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Curetes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise...
- clamour and shouting concerning his head and shaggy hide, between the Curetes and the great-souled Aetolians." The boar's hide that was preserved in...
- for the Calydonian Boar, also called the Aetolian Boar. Tribes known as Curetesnamed after the nearby mountain Kourion, or just to stand out from the...
- myths relate, of Ur**** and Gê, but according to others, of one of the Curetes and Titaea, from whom as their mother they derive the name". Apollodorus...