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Chapter 7 - Dance History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2020

Sarah Olsen
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Williams College, Massachusetts
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Chapter Seven offers a pair of readings in Greek historiography, drawing from the various models outlined in the preceding chapters to illuminate the role of dance description in scenes from Herodotus’ Histories and Xenophon’s Anabasis. My analysis demonstrates that these historians draw on familiar tropes about the social status and cultural significance of solo dancers (both male and female), yet also refigure them to serve their own creative and narrative ends. I suggest that the act of writing about embodied action – of fixing dance in words – is an analog for the work of the historian in translating disparate actions and events into a coherent narrative.

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Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
Representing the Unruly Body
, pp. 178 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Dance History
  • Sarah Olsen, Williams College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
  • Online publication: 30 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108755221.008
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  • Dance History
  • Sarah Olsen, Williams College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
  • Online publication: 30 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108755221.008
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  • Dance History
  • Sarah Olsen, Williams College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
  • Online publication: 30 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108755221.008
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