Quotations by ancient Greek writers and poets on dance

Contents

Aeschylus (525-456/4 BC): Eumenides
Aeschylus (525-456/4 BC): The Persians
Aeschylus (525-456/4 BC): Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus (525-456/4 BC): The Suppliants
Anonymous: “Calliope discovered the art of heroic song”
Anonymous: Anon. de lyricis poets No. 7
Anth. Pal. (980 PC): “there set up the splendid chorus to the goddess”
Apollodorus (180-120 BC): “Frenzied dance, of the mad daughters of Proetus”
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): Birds, 410 BC
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): The Clouds (563-74)
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): The Frogs
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): The Knights, 420 BC
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): Lysistrata, 410 BC
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): Peace, 420 BC
Aristophanes (420-380 BC): Wasps (1475-1536)
Aristotle (384-322 BC): On Philosophy
Aristotle (384-322 BC): Poetics
Aristotle (384-322 BC): Problems
Aristotle (384-322 BC): Rhetoric
Atilius Fortunatianus (4th c. A.D.): “In early times the songs composed for the gods”
Callimachus (300-240 BC): To Apollo, Hymn II 80-7, 93
Anonymous: Etymologicum Magnum
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Andromache
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Bacchantes
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Cyclops, 423 BC
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Electra (465-9)
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Electra
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Hecuba
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Heracleidae, 429 BC
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Heracles
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Ion (1074-1089)
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Phoenissae
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Suppliants
Euripides (485/4-406 BC): The Trojan Women
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC): III. To Delian Apollo, 140-164
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC): To Pythian Apollo, 11-25
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC): IV. To Hermes 436-462 (ll. 463-495)
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC): V. To Aphrodite 7-32; 106-142 (ll. 247-290)
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC): VI. To Aphrodite (21 Lines) (ll. 1-18)
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. BC) : XV. To Heracles The Lion-Hearted 1-8 (l. 9)
The Homeric Hymns And Homerica (8-7th c. BC): XIX. To Pan 1-26
The Homeric Hymns And Homerica (8-7th c. BC) : XXVII. To Artemis 1-20; 21-22
Homer (800-700 BC) : Iliad XVIII.484-9; XVIII.590-606
Homer (800-700 BC) : Iliad III Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey I 150; 150 ff
Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey IV. 17- 19
Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey VI. 99 ff; VI. 155-7
Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey VIII 248 ff; VIII 258 ff
Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey XIV. 463 ff
Homer (800-700 BC) : Odyssey XVII. 463 ff
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (8-7th c. AD): Odyssey XVIII. 193 ff
Homer (800-700 BC): Odyssey XXIII. 131 ff
Horace 65-8 BC: Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
Julian the Apostate (331-363 AD): Hymn to King Helios I46a-d
Pseudo-Julian (ca. 320 AD): Letter 74, 42 i a-b
Libanius (314-393 AD): Oratio XI 29; LI 21; LXIV 12;
Lucian (120-180 AD): On the dance
Lysias (445 BC): The Orations of Lysias
Marius Victorinus (4th c. AD): The ancients sang the praises…
Mesomedes (2nd c. AD): Hymn to Helios 1-25
Nonnos (ca. 450 AD): Dionysiaca V 100-12
Orphic Hymns (2nd c. AD): To the Horae XLIII 1-9 Dr.
Sappho (613-570 BC): To Atthis
Sophocles (497/6-405 BC): Antigone
Sophocles (497/6-405 BC): Oedipus the King
Sophocles (497/6-405 BC): Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles (497/6-405 BC): Trachiniae
Theophrastus (371-287 BC): Characteres ethicae Theophrasti
Xenophon (431-354 BC): Memorabilia
Xenophon (431-354 BC): The Symposium
Xenophon (431-354 BC): Hellenica
Xenophon (431-354 BC): Anabasis
Xenophon (431-354 BC): Agesilaus
Xenophon (431-354 BC): Cyroupaedeia, The education of Cyrus
Xenophon (431-354 BC): The Economist