Curetes
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Dictaean Curetes · the armed troop
in the texts
Iliad
A people at war with the Aetolians over Calydon in Phoenix's embedded narrative.
On this the goddess set the Curetes and the Aetolians fighting furiously about the head and skin of the boar.
those of his comrades who were nearest and dearest to him also prayed him, but they could not move him till the foe was battering at the very doors of his chamber, and the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city.
De Rerum Natura
An armed troop representing the mythic Cretan Curetes, who in legend drowned the cries of the infant Zeus with clashing weapons to save him from Saturn.
Are called the Phrygian Curetes.
Eager with armed valour to defend
Or else because they signify by this