Definition of Kouretes. Meaning of Kouretes. Synonyms of Kouretes

- 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,...
- 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...
- Eleutherna claimed descent from Aora and her husband Eleuther, one of the Kouretes. Steph**** of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Aōros Edmonds, Radcliffe G. (2010)...
- the Boeotian poet Hesiod. Here satyrs are born alongside the nymphs and Kouretes and are described as "good-for-nothing, prankster Satyrs". Satyrs were...
- (Furies) Alecto Megaera Tisiphone Earthborn Cyclopes Gigantes Hecatonchires Kouretes Meliae Telchines Typhon Apotheothenai Aeacus Minos Orpheus Rhadamanthus...
- 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...
- (Furies) Alecto Megaera Tisiphone Earthborn Cyclopes Gigantes Hecatonchires Kouretes Meliae Telchines Typhon Apotheothenai Aeacus Minos Orpheus Rhadamanthus...
- birthplace or hiding place of Zeus. According to a variant of this legend, the Kouretes, a band of mythical warriors, undertook to dance their wild, noisy war...