The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . fig. 477. costumes of the two groups similar, denoting the Asiatic origin ofboth, but the arrangement and pose arc alike. Dancer B (Fig. 478) executes the slide at the same time onboth feet. An attempt to assign the two dancers to their proper place inthe Bacchic procession:—they dance on each side of the god, tohonor and amuse him. The ceramist has done his best to show aslide on both feet at each end of the line by these two personageswho are on either side of the divinity; this is an artifice of perspec-tive. Figs. 479, 480: Co
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . fig. 477. costumes of the two groups similar, denoting the Asiatic origin ofboth, but the arrangement and pose arc alike. Dancer B (Fig. 478) executes the slide at the same time onboth feet. An attempt to assign the two dancers to their proper place inthe Bacchic procession:—they dance on each side of the god, tohonor and amuse him. The ceramist has done his best to show aslide on both feet at each end of the line by these two personageswho are on either side of the divinity; this is an artifice of perspec-tive. Figs. 479, 480: Compare with the above (315). 323. The greater number of the persons who execute the danceof the joined hands wear a costume very unlike the Greeks (Figs. 190 RECONSTRUCTION OF TEMPOS AND STEPS. Fig. 478. 4-60, 464, 469, 470, 472, 474, 478, 479). But the dance itself is ofbarbaric origin, most likely Asiatic, and, in a happy moment, was
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