ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CORYBANT
From Latin Corybās, from Greek Korubas, probably of Phrygian origin.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORYBANT»
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Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable
elder of them, worshipped as heroes only, although they were more highly
respected than the generality of hero gods were. The third Corybant, called
simply the Corybant, and the Satrap, was the great deity of the pagan religion, the
incarnate ...
to the corybant on the right—the one who retained his weapon. He was an adept
who could halve a fly in midair, but he understood that he faced a man who knew
battle. He should have waited for his rose-colored mate to reclaim his sword, ...
3
The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought
The competitive conversation continues, as this selfconfessed Corybant (215d8
—e2) — an allusion that casts Alcibiades again in the role of Bacchic reveller and
initiate — trumps Socrates' encomiastic truth with a true (or more true?) account ...
4
A Different God?: Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism
Plato positions Socrates at a curiously paradoxical intersection of Dionysianism
and rationality, turning him again, just as in the Symposium, into a corybant of
reason.46 The second point that needs to be made is this: if I am not mistaken,
the ...
5
Walker's Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language
A buffoon. Corybant'io a. Pertaining to a corybant ; madly excited. Pedan'tio a.
Characteristic of, suiting, or resembling a pedant. Vedan'tio a. Pertaining to the
Vedanta. Qigan'tio a. Immense, extraordinary ; resembling a giant. Sycophan'tlo a
.
John Walker, Lawrence H. Dawson, Michael B. Freeman, 1983
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Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues
Upon meeting "the man sick with craving to hear arguments" (TM voaouvTi Ttepi
Aoycov aKor|v, 228b6-7), he was pleased to find a fellow Corybant. However,
when asked to speak, he played coy. So now, Socrates says, Phaedrus should
do ...
To play the bacchant or corybant is to hear or to think one hears flutes.
Corresponding to Plato's remark, “those who play the corybant think they hear
flutes” (Crito 54d), is Iamblichus's assertion: “Certain ecstatics hear flutes,
cymbals, drums or ...
Marjorie Garber, William R Kenan Jr Professor of English Marjorie Garber, Nancy J. Vickers, 2013
For what is not according to nature is unnatural for them.24 Corybant This human
is called corybant by the Thracians who live by the Haimos River, and the
Phrygians give him a similar name,because from the top of the head25 and from
the ...
Willis Barnstone, Marvin W. Meyer, 2005
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Corpus cultus Cybelae attidisque (CCCA) 3
Behind the goddess's throne a dancing Maenad is beating cymbals and to the left
of the tree a Corybant is dancing with a shield in his raised left hand and a
dagger in his outstretched right hand. To the right of the tree Attis is found sitting
on a ...
Maarten Jozef Vermaseren, 1977
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Philo of Alexandria: An Annotated Bibliography, 1937-1986
56-80. This ambitious work presents a lengthy exploration of the interrelation
between the notions of choral dance, cosmos and culture (rcaiSeia) in Greek
thought from Plato to Pseudo-Dionysius. A chapter entitled "The leap of the
corybant' is ...
Roberto Radice, David T. Runia, 1988
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