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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods.
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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Kourai means animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods.
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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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