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Title: The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Emmanuel, Maurice, 1862-1938
Subjects: Dance
Publisher: New York : John Lane Company London : John Lane
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 543. couch or litter, carried by bearers, or on the funeral chariot, theface uncovered; he is surrounded by women who tear their hair(Figs. 541, 54>2). Although their sex is not always clearly re-vealed, there is no doubt about their being women, because the backof the vase explains the gesture. These women are nude, but theirnudity is a convention of the painters of that time, being merely a 234 CHOREGRAPHY simplification of costume,showing the human figure asan abstract idea. Fig. 543, from a Corin-thian jar of the seventh cen-tury B. C, exhibits the vio-lent gestures against whichSolon issued an edict,-—ges-tures which are the outwardmanifestation of great grief.These three women tear theirhair by the handful. The onein the center resembles Fig.542, of which it is an explan-ation. In many instances thefuneral dance is cruelly real-istic ; this marks the climaxbefore the modification. 365. In the case of themost ancient vases, the wom-en do not beat their breastsor feign t

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