Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion
Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life…
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Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion
In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence.
The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society.