The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 563. 242 CHOREGRAPHY Some of these young persons who dance are Satyrs ; these brandishthe thyrses; others play with vases. It would be trespassing on thedomain of fiction, which reigns sovereign on these Pompeiian frescos,to pretend to find in them anything that can be treated as a seriouscontribution to our knowledge of the dance. 377. Excepting the ball games, no outdoor play is representedin painting or sculpture. The writers speak of those games where. Fig. 561. the players leaped up and down in an exaggerated manner on a
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 563. 242 CHOREGRAPHY Some of these young persons who dance are Satyrs ; these brandishthe thyrses; others play with vases. It would be trespassing on thedomain of fiction, which reigns sovereign on these Pompeiian frescos,to pretend to find in them anything that can be treated as a seriouscontribution to our knowledge of the dance. 377. Excepting the ball games, no outdoor play is representedin painting or sculpture. The writers speak of those games where. Fig. 561. the players leaped up and down in an exaggerated manner on aslippery cord, inevitably meeting with misadventures, to the delightof the spectators. A player marked the rhythm to which theseleaps were made. 378. Play-rhythms for Two.—The aulette was often accompanied by the ephedrismos. It is supposed, fromthe aspect of the players represented inFigs. 564 and 565, that the rhythm actedas a regulator. Properly speaking, the ephedrismos is awager, the loser being obliged to carry thevictor on his back. Representations of itare numerous in all periods of Greek 562 is one of the oldest: this is ayouth who carries a younger boy on hisback in a sort of game, the point being tothrow the person being carried on play takes on another form in Fig. 563. The one who carriesthe other is motionless, his hands held between his knees; astride his
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