-
Anytos was
considered a
Kourete.
Homer referred to
select young men as
kouretes, when
Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out
kouretes, the
bravest among...
- Fabulae, in
which Amalthea hides the
infant in a tree and
gathers the
Kouretes to
dance noisily, so that the child's
crying cannot be heard.
Other accounts...
- He also
refers to the
Kouretes "rais[ing] a
great alarum", and in
doing so
deceiving Cronus, and
relates that when the
Kouretes were
carrying the newborn...
- successful.
Strabo says of the mythographers: "And they
suspect that both the
Kouretes and the
Korybantes were
offspring of the
Daktyloi Idaioi; at any rate,...
- said they were born from Ur****'
blood when
Cronus castrated him. The
Kouretes were born from
rainwater (Ur**** [peacefully]
fertilizing Gaia). Echidna...
- Rhea hid Zeus in a cave on
Mount Ida. Her attendants, the warrior-like
Kouretes and Dactyls,
acted as
bodyguards for the
infant Zeus,
helping to conceal...
- the
Boeotian poet Hesiod. Here
satyrs are born
alongside the
nymphs and
Kouretes and are
described as "good-for-nothing,
prankster Satyrs".
Satyrs were...
-
caves believed to have been the
birthplace or
hiding place of Zeus. The
Kouretes, a band of
mythical warriors,
undertook to
dance their wild,
noisy war...
- p. 296,
citing Cicero, De Haruspi**** Responsis, 13. 28.
Recalling the
Kouretes and
Corybantes of Cybele's Gr****
myths and cults. See Robertson, N., in...
- 2001, p. 286. The term
appears twice, in OH 1 to Hecate, and OH 31 to the
Kouretes. For an
extensive discussion of the term boukólos, see
Morand 2001, pp...
