the Curetes (Ancient Greek: Κουρῆτες) were legendary people who took part in the quarrel over the Calydonian boar. Strabo mentioned that the Curetes were...
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The term Curetes (/kjʊəˈriːtiːz/; Greek: Κουρῆτες) may refer to: Curetes or Korybantes, the dancing attendants respectively of Rhea or Cybele in Greek...
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Aenianians - They lived in Aeniania/Ainis. Aetolians/Curetes - They lived in Aetolia. Aetolian Mountain tribes (Southern Pindus Mountains) Agraeis Aperantoi...
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Brauron Cult of Dionysus Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons Cumae Curetes (tribe) Cyamites Cyaneae Cyanippus Cybele Cychreides Cychreus Cycliadas Cyclic...
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Dactyls (mythology) (category Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography)
Greek attempts to justify and rationalize the relationships of Dactyls, Curetes, and Corybantes were never fully successful. Strabo says of the mythographers:...
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Telchines (category Ancient tribes in Rhodes)
infant Zeus and were called Curetes. The Telchines were associated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls, and Curetes. The Telchines were entrusted...
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Korybantes (category Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography)
pronouncedly orgiastic nature of their rites". According to Oppian, the Curetes, who had been tasked with guarding the young Zeus, were turned into lions...
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the development of the human civilization. He was said to be one of the Curetes. According to a tradition recorded by Stephanus, it was during Cres' reign...
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Dryopes (category Ancient tribes in Euboea)
Greek: Δρύοπες) or Dryopians (/draɪˈɒpiənz/) were one of the aboriginal tribes of ancient Greece. According to Herodotus, their earliest abode is said...
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Boeotia as a whole. Pausanias describes the defeat of the Aones, a Boeotian tribe, by Cadmus. The Greek poet Callimachus may have been the first to call Boeotia...
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spears, and dispersed the birds by the noise, after the manner of the Curetes. The Argonauts also found shipwrecked men on the island, naked and helpless—the...
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people who lived in Bithynia Chalybes, a Georgian tribe of Pontus and Cappadocia in northern Anatolia. Curetes, legendary people who took part in the quarrel...
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priests in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and of historical tribes. In Greek mythology, the Curetes were identified as armed priests. In Ancient Rome, the...
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Comanche Comitatus Condottieri Cossacks Conquistadors Coromantee Crusader Curetes Curonians Dacians Dahomey Amazons Dani people Dog soldier Druzhina Eagle...
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Pygmy (Greek mythology) (category Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography)
from elbow to knuckles," from the adverb πύξ pyx "with the fist") were a tribe of diminutive humans in Greek mythology. According to the Iliad, they were...
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Gargareans (category Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography)
Γαργαρείς Gargareis) were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. The Amazons kept the female...
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merrymaking, and festivity Corymbus (Κόρυμβος), god of the fruit of the ivy The Curetes (Κουρέτες), guardians of infant Zeus on Mount Ida, barely distinguished...
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Teleboans /təˈlɛboʊənz/ (Ancient Greek: Τηλεβόαι, Tēlebóai) were an Acarnanian tribe. They were said to descend from one Teleboas, a son of Pterelaus and brother...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Minyans (category Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography)
came to it with Athamas" and may have represented a ruling dynasty or a tribe later located in Boeotia. Herodotus asserts several times that Pelasgians...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, also called the Aetolian Boar. Tribes known as Curetes – named after the nearby mountain Kourion, or just to stand out...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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Beings Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons...
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