School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . als, which were sonumerous among the Greeks, dancingformed a very prominent part. We findfrom the earliest times that the worship ofApollo was connected with a religious dance,called i7y/jorc/iema(u7rJpx^jna). All the reli-gious dances, with the exception of theBacchic and the Corybantlan, were verysimple, and consisted of gentle movementsof the body, with various turnings andwindings around the altar: such a dance SALTATIO. 319 was the Geranus (yepauos), which Thc>eusis said to have performed at Delos on hisreturn from Crete. The Dionysiac
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . als, which were sonumerous among the Greeks, dancingformed a very prominent part. We findfrom the earliest times that the worship ofApollo was connected with a religious dance,called i7y/jorc/iema(u7rJpx^jna). All the reli-gious dances, with the exception of theBacchic and the Corybantlan, were verysimple, and consisted of gentle movementsof the body, with various turnings andwindings around the altar: such a dance SALTATIO. 319 was the Geranus (yepauos), which Thc>eusis said to have performed at Delos on hisreturn from Crete. The Dionysiac orBacchic, and the Corybantlan, Mere of avery dilferent nature. In the former, thelife and adventures of the god were repre-sented by mimetic dancing [Dionysia].The Corybantlan was of a very wild cha-racter : it was chiefly danced in Phrygiaand in Crete; the dancers were armed,struck their swords against their shields,and displayed the most extravagant fury;it was accompanied chiefly ])y the the dances in the theatre, CORTBANTIAN DANCE. Dancing was applied to gymnastic pur-poses and to training for war, especially inthe Doric states, and was believed to have,contributed very much to the success ofthe Dorians in war, as it enabled them toperform their evolutions simultaneously andin order. There were various dances in earlytimes, which served as a preparation forwar: hence Homer calls the HoplitesTpuXees, a war-dance having been calledirpvAis by the Cretans. Of such dancesthe most celebrated was the Pyrrhic (^trvppLxf]), of which the irpvAis was probablyonly another name. It was danced to thesound of the flute, and its time was veryquick and light, as is shown by the name ofthe Pyrrhic foot C ), which must be con-nected with this dance. In the non-Doricstates it was probably not practised as atraining for war, but only as a mimeticdance : thus we read of its being danced bywomen to entertain a company. It wasalso performed at Athens at the greateran
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