Lucian, De saltatione, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 13

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Λυκῖνος

ἃ δὲ Ὅμηρος ὑπὲρ Ἀριάδνης ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι πεποίηκεν καὶ τοῦ χοροῦ ὃν αὐτῇ Δαίδαλος ἤσκησεν ὡς ἀνεγνωκότι σοι παρίημι, καὶ τοὺς ὀρχηστὰς δὲ τοὺς δύο οὓς ἐκεῖ ὁ ποιητὴς κυβιστητῆρας καλεῖ, ἡγουμένους τοῦ χοροῦ, καὶ πάλιν ἃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἀσπίδι λέγει· κοῦροι δʼ ὀρχηστῆρες ἐδίνεον,¹ ὥς τι κάλλιστον τοῦτο τοῦ Ἡφαίστου ἐμποιήσαντος τῇ ἀσπίδι. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ Φαίακας καὶ πάνυ εἰκὸς ἦν ὀρχήσει χαίρειν, ἁβρούς τε ὄντας καὶ ἐν πάσῃ εὐδαιμονίᾳ διατρίβοντας. ὁ γοῦν Ὅμηρος τοῦτο αὐτῶν μάλιστα θαυμάζοντα πεποίηκε τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καὶ τὰς μαρμαρυγὰς τῶν ποδῶν θεώμενον.

De saltatione. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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The Dance Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 13 focus

[13] Taking it that you have read what Homer has to say about Ariadne in “The Shield,” and about the chorus that Daedalus fashioned for her,¹ I pass it by; as also the two dancers whom the poet there calls tumblers, who lead the chorus, and again what he says in that same “Shield”: ‘ Youthful dancers were circling”; which was worked into the shield by Hephaestus as something especially beautiful.² And that the Phaeacians should delight in dancing was very natural, since they were people of refinement and they lived in utter bliss. In fact, Homer has represented Odysseus as admiring this in them above all else and watching “the twinkling of their feet.””³

Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 13 focus

[13] You have read your Homer; so that I need say nothing of the Shield of Achilles, with its choral dance, modelled on that which Daedalus designed for Ariadne; nor of the two dancers (‘tumblers,’ he calls them) there represented as leading the dance; nor again of the ‘whirling dance of youth,’ so beautifully wrought thereon by Hephaestus. As to the Phaeacians, living as they did in the lap of luxury, nothing is more natural than that they should have rejoiced in the dance. Odysseus, we find, is particularly struck with this: he gazes with admiration on the ‘twinkling of their feet.’

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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως

1. ἐδίνεον N (du Soul): ἐδίνευον cett.

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