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18-523: The term Curetes ( / k j ʊəˈr iː t iː z / ; Greek: Κουρῆτες ) may refer to: Curetes or Korybantes , the dancing attendants respectively of Rhea or Cybele in Greek mythology Curetes (tribe) , in Greek mythology Curetes or Curibantes, a Latin name for the inhabitants of the island of Krk , in the Adriatic Sea Topics referred to by

36-796: A connection with the Hyades . The scholar Jane Ellen Harrison writes that besides being guardians, nurturers, and initiators of the infant Zeus, the Kouretes were primitive magicians and seers. She also writes that they were metal workers and that metallurgy was considered an almost magical art. There were several "tribes" of Korybantes, including the Cabeiri , the Korybantes Euboioi, the Korybantes Samothrakioi. Hoplodamos and his Gigantes were counted among Korybantes, and

54-470: A distinctly Near Eastern style. Korybantes also presided over the infancy of Dionysus , another god who was born as a babe, and of Zagreus , a Cretan child of Zeus, or child-doublet of Zeus. The wild ecstasy of their cult can be compared to the female Maenads who followed Dionysus. Ovid , in Metamorphoses , says the Kouretes were born from rainwater ( Uranus fertilizing Gaia ). This suggests

72-486: A drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek thought, was one of the civilizing activities, like wine-making or music. The dance in armor (the "Pyrrhic dance" or pyrrhichios [Πυρρίχη]) was a male coming-of-age initiation ritual linked to a warrior victory celebration. Both Jane Ellen Harrison and the French classicist Henri Jeanmaire have shown that both the Kouretes (Κουρῆτες) and Cretan Zeus, who

90-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Korybantes The name Korybantes is of uncertain etymology. Edzard Johan Furnée and R. S. P. Beekes have suggested a Pre-Greek origin. Others refer the name to *κορυβή ( korybé ), the Macedonian version of κορυφή ( koryphé ) "crown, top, mountain peak", explaining their association with mountains, particularly Olympus . The Korybantes were

108-713: The Titan Anytos was considered a Kourete. Homer referred to select young men as kouretes , when Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out kouretes , the bravest among the Achaeans to bear gifts to Achilles . The Greeks preserved a tradition down to Strabo 's day, that the Kuretes of Aetolia and Acarnania in mainland Greece had been imported from Crete. Pyrrhichios The Pyrrhichios or Pyrrhike dance ("Pyrrhic dance"; Ancient Greek : πυρρίχιος or πυρρίχη, but often misspelled as πυρρίχειος or πυρήχειος)

126-692: The aulos ; its time was quick and light, as is also shown by the metric foot called pyrrhic. It was described by Xenophon in his work the Anabasis . In that work he writes that the dance was performed at a banquet held in Kotyora during which Greek and Paphalagonian forces settled their differences. The following is the part in which the Pyrrhic dance is mentioned: The Paphlagonians were amazed to see all these dances performed by men in arms. At this Mysus, perceiving their astonishment, prevailed on one of

144-547: The Arcadians, who had a woman dancer, to let him bring her in; which he did accordingly, after he had dressed her in the handsomest manner he was able, and given her a light buckler. She danced the Pyrrhic dance with great agility: on which there was great clapping; and the Paphlagonians asked whether the woman also charged with their troops. The others answered, that it was they who drove the king out of their camp. This

162-493: The Divine Child of Crete; the ritual itself we may never recover with clarity, but it is not impossible that a connection exists between the Kouretes' weapons at the cave and the dedicated weapons at Arkalochori ". Among the offerings recovered from the cave, the most spectacular are decorated bronze shields with patterns that draw upon north Syrian originals and a bronze gong on which a god and his attendants are shown in

180-586: The Korybantes "are distinguished only [from the Kuretes] by their Asiatic origin and by the more pronouncedly orgiastic nature of their rites". According to Oppian , the Curetes, who had been tasked with guarding the young Zeus , were turned into lions by Cronus . Zeus then made them into the kings of the animals, while his mother Rhea yoked them to her chartiot. These armored male dancers kept time to

198-794: The confusion rampant among those not initiated: Many assert that the gods worshipped in Samothrace as well as the Kurbantes and the Korybantes and in like manner the Kouretes and the Idaean Daktyls are the same as the Kabeiroi , but as to the Kabeiroi they are unable to tell who they are. Grant Showerman in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition addressed the confusion, stating that

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216-628: The offspring of Apollo and the Muse Thalia or Rhetia. One account attests the parentage to Zeus and the Muse Calliope , or of Helios and Athena , or lastly, of Cronus . The Kuretes or Kouretes ( Κουρῆτες ) (see Ecstatics below ) were nine dancers who venerated Rhea , the Cretan counterpart of Cybele . A fragment from Strabo 's Book VII gives a sense of the roughly analogous character of these male confraternities, and

234-456: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Curetes . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curetes&oldid=1254423655 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Greek-language text Short description

252-475: The secret places of the earth, on Mount Aigaion with its thick forests; there the Cretan Kouretes' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted by Hellenes as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his cannibal father Cronus . Emily Vermeule observed, This myth is Greek interpretation of mystifying Minoan ritual in an attempt to reconcile their Father Zeus with

270-468: Was achieved at such cost that it was tantamount to a defeat. The Phrygian Korybantes were often confused by Greeks with other ecstatic male confraternities, such as the Idaean Dactyls or the Cretan Kouretes, spirit-youths ( kouroi ) who acted as guardians of the infant Zeus. In Hesiod 's telling of Zeus's birth, when Great Gaia came to Crete and hid the child Zeus in a "steep cave", beneath

288-578: Was called "the greatest kouros (κοῦρος)", were intimately connected with the transition of boys into manhood in Cretan cities. The English "Pyrrhic Dance" is a corruption of the original Pyrríkhē or the Pyrríkhios Khorós "Pyrrhichian Dance". It has no relationship with the king Pyrrhus of Epirus , who invaded Italy in the 3rd century BC, and who gave his name to the Pyrrhic victory , which

306-453: Was the best known war dance of the Greeks. It was probably of Dorian origin and practiced at first solely as a training for war. According to ancient sources, it was a weapon dance . Plato ( Leges , 815a) describes it as imitating by quick movements the ways in which blows and darts are to be avoided and also the modes in which an enemy is to be attacked. It was danced to the sound of

324-576: Was the end of that night's entertainment. Homer refers to the Pyrrichios and describes how Achilles danced it around the burning funeral of Patroclus . The dance was loved in all of Greece and especially by the Spartans , who considered it light war training. This belief led the Spartans to teach the dance to their children while they were still young. Athenian youth performed the dance in

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