Talk:Korybantes

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Re: Gallae vs. Galli/Galloi - It should be (and was) the second one, since the priests of Cybele were (sort of) male. As a side note, they don't particularly belong here.

I believe most transsexuals would be rather offended at being called "sort of male" or "sort of female" rather than simply their proper gender. --Eequor 13:51, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm going to redirect this page to Korybantes. This is a classical Greek form: as I am reading the Wikipedia transliteration policy, we should use either the Englished form "Corybants" or else the transliteration of the original language. Using the Modern Greek form does not particularly make sense. Bacchiad 06:18, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you Bacchiad. I didn't want to get embroiled with latter-day Greek nationalists. Wetman 15:59, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Template needs redoing. Wetman 18:19, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

"Although the Greek imagination tends to portray the Korybantes as mythical and virile, they may be modeled on the real world transsexual followers of Cybele in Phrygia, known at Rome as galli; the Greek construction of gender would have tended to suppress these links." The Korybantes are archaic and Cretan; the galli are emulating Attis and are Anatolian. The differences are not a mirage. BTW, see euhemerism for the modelling of mythic figures on historic cult practitioners. Wetman 00:49, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

...The Kuretes were the nine dancers... Later on it refers to them as Kouretes, is this a typo? --Kookoo275 04:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Korybantes vs Kuretes

I know absolutely nothing about this period of classical history, but I wonder if, despite the similarities, they warrant two articles. They are distinguished in the 1911 Britannica articles Corybantes and Curetes, and Silverman finds a lot to say about both. I edited this article and the dab Curetes to better reflect the distinction. Or is the current intertwined nature of the descriptions good enough? Incidentally, Silverman's "...distinguished only by their Asiatic origin and by the more pronouncedly orgiastic nature of their rites" survives into the contemporary Britannica, which otherwise does indeed merge the two into one. David Brooks (talk) 17:21, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]