Curetes

Curetes Dictaei and Dactyli Idaei

  • 15 gennaio 2022
Curetes Dictaei and Dactyli Idaei

CURETES DICTAEI In the background of the painting are represented the ravines of Mount Dicte, on the island of Crete, the hiding place  of  child Zeus. It is said, relates Lucretius (De Rerum Natura, II, 33), that in this place the Curetes Dictaei once concealed the famous cries of Zeus. Children around a child, armed, with tireless dance, they beat bronze on bronze. Rhythmically they shook the terrifying crests of their helmets. The crash was motivated by the fact that Cronus / Saturn, if he had discovered his son, would have brought the baby to his jaws and wolfed him down. In his place ...

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