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).
Thalia (Muse)
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In Greek mythology, Thalia, also spelled Thaleia, was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in he
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…top, mountain peak", explaining their association with mountains, particularly Olympus. The Korybantes were the offspring of Apollo by either the Muse Thalia, or the nymph Rhetia, or the nymph Danais. One account attests the parentage to Zeus and the Muse Calliope, or to Helios and Athena, or lastly, to…
Roman statue of Thalia from Hadrian's villa, now at the Prado Museum (Madrid)
Thalia on an antique fresco from Pompeii