A dictionary of Greek and Roman . and windings around thealtar : such a dance was the yepavos, which The-seus is said to have performed at Delos on hisreturn from Crete. (Plut. Thes. 21.) The Diony-siac or Bacchic and the Corybantian were of avery different nature. In the former the life andadventures of the god were represented by mimeticdancing [Dionysia]: the dance called Ba/cxKi?by Lucian (de Salt. 79), was a Satyric dance andchiefly prevailed in Ionia and Pontus ; the mostillustrious men in the state danced in it, repre-senting Titans, Corybantians, Satyrs, and husband-men ;
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . and windings around thealtar : such a dance was the yepavos, which The-seus is said to have performed at Delos on hisreturn from Crete. (Plut. Thes. 21.) The Diony-siac or Bacchic and the Corybantian were of avery different nature. In the former the life andadventures of the god were represented by mimeticdancing [Dionysia]: the dance called Ba/cxKi?by Lucian (de Salt. 79), was a Satyric dance andchiefly prevailed in Ionia and Pontus ; the mostillustrious men in the state danced in it, repre-senting Titans, Corybantians, Satyrs, and husband-men ; and the spectators were so delighted withthe exhibition, that they remained sitting the SALTATIO. SALTATIO. 1005 whole day to witness it, forgetful of everythingelse. The Corybantian was of a very wild cha-racter : it was chiefly danced in Phrygia and inCrete ; the dancers were armed, struck theirswords against their shields, and displayed themost extravagant fury ; it Avas accompanied chieflyby the flute. (Lucian, lb. 8 ; Strab. x. p. 473 ;. Plat. Crit. p. 54.) The preceding woodcut fromthe Museo Pio Clementino (vol. iv. pi. 2) is sup-posed to represent a Corybantian dance. Respect-ing the dances in the theatre, see Chorus. Dancing was applied to gymnastic purposes andto training for war, especially in the Doric states,and was believed to have contributed very muchto the success of the Dorians in war, as it enabledthem to perform their evolutions simultaneouslyand in order. Hence the poet Socrates ( p. 629. f.) says, ol Se xopo7s KdWiara &eobs tiucoctlu, apiaroi There were various dances in early times, whichserved as a preparation for war: hence Homer(II. xi. 49, xii. 77) calls the Hoplites irpvAees, awar-dance having been called TrpvXts by the Cre-tans. (Miiller, Dor. iii. 12. § 10.) Of such dancesthe most celebrated was the Pyrrhic (y Tlvppixy),of which the irpvKis was probably only anothername: this Plato (Leg. vii. p. 815) takes as therepresentative of all war
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