Ancient vase-painting gives us the richest iconographic material for learning all sides of contemporary life. The attention of the researchers attracts the images of different dances, one from the deepest antiquity and before our time is the brightest expressions of the emotional nature of the Greeks. The features of succession in a national choreography speak about the extraordinary stability of this component of culture and on the other side about saving of national character.
The Greek dances in antiquity were divided into military, Bacchic, and pacific ones. We know some of these dances from ancient literary sources. Athenaeus and Pollux, lexicographers from Alexandria (2nd –3rd century AD) give a quite complete list of the Greek military dances (Ath. Deipn. 6. 628s. - 31; Pol. On. 4.95-104). The most popular dances were the apokinos, the Pirrhic,and the Prylis (Bron, 1996. p.76). Many information has been saved in the sources about Pirrhic. It was performed usually under the accompaniment of a flute.
Vdovichenko, I. (2002). Images of the Dances on the 4th Centuries Vases from the Black Sea Area. Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, 2(1), 26-43. doi: 10.21608/jmih.2002.153007
MLA
Irina Vdovichenko. "Images of the Dances on the 4th Centuries Vases from the Black Sea Area". Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, 2, 1, 2002, 26-43. doi: 10.21608/jmih.2002.153007
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Vdovichenko, I. (2002). 'Images of the Dances on the 4th Centuries Vases from the Black Sea Area', Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, 2(1), pp. 26-43. doi: 10.21608/jmih.2002.153007
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Vdovichenko, I. Images of the Dances on the 4th Centuries Vases from the Black Sea Area. Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, 2002; 2(1): 26-43. doi: 10.21608/jmih.2002.153007
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