The "Contest of Cithaeron and Helicon" is a fragment of a poem by Corinna. Preserved on a second-century AD papyrus discovered at Hermopolis in Egypt, the poem tells the story of a singing competition
Corinna, by Frederick Leighton
Mount Cithaeron From the tombs of Platea Williams Hugh William 1829
Mount Helicon Williams Hugh William 1829
Korybantes
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According to Greek mythology, the Korybantes, also spelled Corybantes or Corybants, were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are al
Two Kouretes dance raucously, behind whom the goat Amalthea suckles the infant Zeus. Marble relief from the 2nd century AD, Capitoline Museum.
Roman relief of a pyrrhiche or Corybantian dance (Vatican Museums 321)
The Kouretes dancing around the infant Zeus, as pictured in Themis by Jane Ellen Harrison (1912, p. 23; see References section below).