-
Anytos was
considered a
Kourete.
Homer referred to
select young men as
kouretes, when
Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out
kouretes, the
bravest among...
- 2nd-century AD Fabulae,
Amalthea hides the
infant in a tree,
around which the
Kouretes dance noisily.
Other accounts of Zeus's
upbringing describe Amalthea as...
- 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,...
-
Eleutherna claimed descent from Aora and her
husband Eleuther, one of the
Kouretes. Steph**** of Byzantium, s.v. Aōros Edmonds,
Radcliffe G. (2010). "The...
- 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...
- said they were born from Ur****'
blood when
Cronus castrated him. The
Kouretes were born from
rainwater (Ur**** [peacefully]
fertilizing Gaia). Echidna...
- the
Boeotian poet Hesiod. Here
satyrs are born
alongside the
nymphs and
Kouretes and are
described as "good-for-nothing,
prankster Satyrs".
Satyrs were...
-
Ricciardelli 2000
cites OH 59 to the Moirai, OH 55 to Aphrodite, OH 38 to the
Kouretes, and OH 57 to
Hermes Cthonias as
examples of such hymns; cf.
Rudhardt 2008...
- such as the
Idaean Dactyls (Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι) or the
Cretan Kouretes (Κουρῆτες), spirit-youths (kouroi) with
magical powers who
acted as guardians...
- 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...
