Dances of Greece (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Dances of Greece

In Homer we find repeated allusions to dancing, express ing warlike exultation and feelings of love and joy, but theapogee of dancing was reached in the Classical Age, when over two hundred religious, athletic, dramatic and popular dances were performed in the theatre, the stadium and the temple, and the Muse of the Dance, Terpsichore, was loved and honoured.

Plato extolled dancing. In his opinion 'the uneducated man is not likely to have the ability to dance; on the other hand the man of education must be considered perfectly apt to do so.'

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