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- Anytos was considered a Kourete. Homer referred to select young men as kouretes, when Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out kouretes, the bravest among...
- 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...
- the Boeotian poet Hesiod. Here satyrs are born alongside the nymphs and Kouretes and are described as "good-for-nothing, prankster Satyrs". Satyrs were...
- 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...
- such as the Idaean Dactyls (Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι) or the Cretan Kouretes (Κουρῆτες), spirit-youths (kouroi) with magical powers who acted as guardians...
- 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...
- activities. Seraphim reaches the entrance to the hidden realm, guarded by the Kouretes. With the Oneiroi, he tricks them into drinking Lethe water and convinces...
- Mother of the Gods Hermes ****phone Dionysus Kouretes Athena Nike Apollo Leto Artemis Titans Kouretes Corybas Eleusinian Demeter Mother Antaia Mise Horae...