Corybant

(7) Dans un passage des Fastes, Ovide deploie la meme forme pour designer l'imitation rituelle de la danse que les Curetes et Corybantes ont effectuee pour cacher les cris du petit Zeus/Jupiter.

He said: "That's how it is with the Corybantes, who have sharp ears only for the specific song that belongs to whatever god possesses them; they have plenty of words and movements to go with that song; but they are quite lost if the music is different" (Ion 943-944).

We must point out that reference to the particular practice which is exercised by the nurses (and those who cure Corybantes' disease) concludes with the assertion that gymnastic motions in the course of infancy generally contribute to the acquirement of courage.

(30) Strabo tells us that the Curetes, Corybantes, Cabiri, Dactyls, and Telchines were frequently conflated.

Harwood, Lewis noted in a letter to Arthur Greeves, had a facial structure that made him a good stand-in for Bacchus; Lewis and Owen Barfield would be Corybantes, and "Mrs.

(12.) In Ion, Plato compares the state of the enthusiastic rhapsode to "the worshiping Corybantes," [followers of the cult of Dionysius] who, "are not in their sense when they dance [...] [since] they are seized by the Bacchic transport and are possessed" (220).

He has nothing to say about any Socratic philosophical message; only that 'en l'ecoutant, je sens palpiter mon coeur plus fortement que si j'etais agite de la manie dansante des corybantes, ses paroles font couler mes larmes [...] Tels sont les prestiges qu'exercent sur moi et sur bien d'autres, la flute de ce satyre ...' (23) Already we see the words of Socrates being emptied of their properly verbal or philosophical content, and assimilated, in their true effect, to music.