Meaning of kourai | Babel Free

Definitions

animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods

plural, plural-only

Examples

“On view from the sixth century B.C. are two small Attic representations of kourai, dressed statues of maidens, said to represent the Athenian aristocracy in rites celebrating the goddess Athena.”

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