- 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...
- story, he was then
raised by a goat
named Amalthea,
while a
company of
Curetes,
armored male dancers,
shouted and
clanged their shields and
spears to...
-
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:...
-
Mount Ida, where, like the
infant Zeus, he was
guarded by the
dancing Curetes. Zeus
intended Dionysus to be his
successor as
ruler of the cosmos, but...
- 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...
- visible, and thus
received Leto and the children.
According to Strabo, the
Curetes helped Leto by
creating loud
noises with
their weapons and thus frightening...
- to
Mount Ida
where (like the
infant Zeus) he is
guarded by the
dancing Curetes. Zeus
intended Dionysus to be his
successor as
ruler of the cosmos, but...
-
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...
