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Attractive Performances: Ancient Greek Dance: Three Preliminary Studies
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Attractive Performances: Ancient Greek Dance: Three Preliminary Studies Hardcover - 1997

by Frits Naerebout


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  • Title Attractive Performances: Ancient Greek Dance: Three Preliminary Studies
  • Author Frits Naerebout
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 451
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 1997-09
  • Features Bookmark, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789050633079 / 9050633072
  • Weight 2.3 lbs (1.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (24.38 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Dance - Greece - Historiography, Dance - Greece - Sources
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97218251

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F.G. Naerebout is Assistant Professor of Ancient History in the University of Leiden.
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Gieben, Amsterdam, 1997. XIX,451p. Theses. Original gilt titled red cloth. Reading ribbon. Wirestitched summary in Dutch as well as theses loosely inserted. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. ?Despite the well-documented importance of dance in ancient Greece, most studies of ancient Greek culture hardly mention dance at all. (?) This wide-ranging study seeks to redress the balance by proposing a research model to set scholars on a new course. The work is divided into three preliminary and interrelated studies. The first part is a historiography of the work already done since A.D. 600 up to the present. This include not only histories written about ancient Greek dance, but examples of how attempts to reconstruct or capture the spirit of the dance have influenced the development of Western theatrical dance. (?) The second part is a critical overview of texts and images as sources for the study of ancient Greek dance. There is a huge problem in moving from static text or image to movement; a picture only… Read More
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