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Curetes

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Canonical name
Curetes
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Calydon1 observation
·Remembered

In Phoenix’s remembered story, the Curetes are physically at Calydon, scaling its walls and setting fire to the city.

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His sisters and his mother herself besought him sore, but he the more refused them; those of his comrades who were nearest and dearest to him also prayed him, but they could not move him till the foe was battering at the very doors of his chamber, and the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city.

Claims

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·Reported

Phoenix’s old story portrays the Curetes fighting and killing Aetolians around Calydon while trying to destroy the city.

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The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon—the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it
·Reported

Phoenix says the Curetes scale Calydon’s walls and begin burning the city.

See evidence text
the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 24

‘I have an old story in my mind—a very old one—but you are all friends and I will tell it. The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon—the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it. For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits. The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice. He had forgotten her, or somehow or other it had escaped him, and this was a grievous sin. Thereon the archer goddess in her displeasure sent a prodigious creature against him—a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple-trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground. But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it—for it was so monstrous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre. On this the goddess set the Curetes and the Aetolians fighting furiously about the head and skin of the boar.