The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . rrs andMenades and are as indefatigable in their dancing, though their movements are less violent than those of theBacchic dancers. They are more joyous than their noisy com-panions, and are always governed by the law of eurhythmy. 385. Atys Dancer.—Atys is a Phrygian divinity, whose cult was,in a happy hour, introduced into Greece, though the exact timeremains a secret of the gods. The lover of the mother of the gods,to whom he is always most tender, he is not at all times to be foundamong the gods of ancient Greece. Like Sabazio
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . rrs andMenades and are as indefatigable in their dancing, though their movements are less violent than those of theBacchic dancers. They are more joyous than their noisy com-panions, and are always governed by the law of eurhythmy. 385. Atys Dancer.—Atys is a Phrygian divinity, whose cult was,in a happy hour, introduced into Greece, though the exact timeremains a secret of the gods. The lover of the mother of the gods,to whom he is always most tender, he is not at all times to be foundamong the gods of ancient Greece. Like Sabazios, like Men andMithras, he is officially looked down upon; yet it is quite certainthat his mysteries were celebrated. He presents an Oriental aspect;a Phrygian helmet on his head, he wears a costume of eastern type,a detail of which is the pantaloons that are wrapped around his 252 THE DANCERS This Atys is a dancer. He is not the only winged dancer,—thereare Nike, Eros, Psyche. The suspension at the hack (Fig. 571)permits this figure to be studied under the conditions which theartist intended. 386. The Curetes (dashers)—The ancient writers disagree as tothe origin of the Pyrrhic, but all are in accord regarding the mostancient of all the dances in armour of which history guards the m e m o r y,—t h edance of theClashcrs. Theirrole was to playfor the infant , the greatmother of thegods, married Kro-nos, and, to pre-vent the infantfrom the voracityof her husband,charged the armedmen to clash theirweapons to drownthe sound of his cries. The Clashcrs acquitted themselves well, clash-ing their helmets, swords and shields. Their dance, necessarily noisy,is distinguished by disordered movements, made necessary by theessential point of legend. The sculptures which represent their exercises, are, unhappily,nearly all of them, of the lower period of art
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