people
Curetes
The armed Cretan attendants whose clashing of weapons drowned the infant Jupiter's cries; their din is echoed in Cybele's rites.
Reading notes
- The Festivals §4.4 Curetes
The armed Cretan attendants whose clashing drowned the infant Jupiter's cries.
- Metamorphoses §4.75 Curetes
Divine attendants, sprung from a generous rain, who shielded the infant Jove with clashing arms.
- Metamorphoses §8.196 Curetes' land
Crete, land of the Curetes, who clashed their shields to hide the infant Jupiter's cries.