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Headword:
*koru/bantes
Adler number: kappa,2114
Translated headword: Korybants
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Some take it that the Kouretes and the Korybantes are the same. They were Zeus' nurses and guards. Some say they [were] ten, others nine. They were the children of Rhea.[1]
And a Korybant [was] the same as the Kouretes, who were the nurses of Zeus and his teachers, and attendants of Rhea.[2]
Greek Original:*koru/bantes: e)/nioi tou\s *kou/rhtas kai\ tou\s *koru/bantas tou\s au)tou\s u(peilh/fasin. h)=san de\ *dio\s trofei=s ou(=toi kai\ fu/lakes. tine\s de\ au)tou\s de/ka fasi/n, a)/lloi e)nne/a. h)=san de\ th=s *(re/as pai=des. kai\ *koru/bas o( au)to\s toi=s *kou/rhsin, oi(\ h)=san trofei=s tou= *dio\s kai\ dida/skaloi kai\ th=s *(re/as o)padoi/.
Notes:
See also
kappa 2115,
kappa 2116.
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 558; cf. those to
Wasps 9.
[2] This passage (nearly identical to the preceding) comes from the
scholia to
Plato,
Symposium 215E.
The Kouretes and Korybantes are routinely conflated as ecstatic male confraternities (web address 1), as discussed in
Strabo 10.3.19-22.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; mythology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 2 February 2009@08:17:56.
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