Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 12 : The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment

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This volume explores engagement with Greco-Roman Antiquity across Europe and beyond in the 18th century. Approximately 100 experts, in some 140 articles from “Academy” to “Wallpaper”, show how Classical and rival antiquities were perceived and studied during the age of Enlightenment, revolution and scientific progress, and how they served the formulation and affirmation of new ideals. The survey covers the period between the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes in France in 1687 and the reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

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Dance

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Author(s): Schroedter, Stephanie
A. Historical backgroundDance in Ancient Greece was present in all spheres of sociocultural life in everyday, religious and military contexts, and its prestige was supreme. The semantic range of ancient orchestics was accordingly very broad. The greek verb orcheomai (‘to leap/bound’, ‘to dance’, ‘to represent by dancing’) originally described profane or religious ecstatic states and it later came to denote all rhythmical movements of the body or limbs, whether locomotive or stationary. Whereas dancing in pairs was the norm in western dance culture from…
Date: 2021-01-25