• 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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  • 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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  • Dryopes (category Ancient tribes in Greece)
    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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