Title: Dance and ritual play in Greek religion /
Authors: Lonsdale, Steven, 1952-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Dance Religious aspects; Rites and ceremonies Greece; Dance Greece History.; Play Religious aspects.; Play Greece History.; Dance Anthropological aspects Greece.; Greece Religion.
Contents: Dance and play in Plato's Laws : anticipating an anthropological paradigm -- Origins and divine prototypes : dance as an ordering force -- Further divine prototypes : dance as a disruptive force -- Divine prototypes and their human realizations -- Preparations for manhood : Zeus, Athena, and the weapon dance -- Rehearsals for womanhood : dance and ritual play in female transition rites -- Dance in courtship and marriage -- The dance of death : privileges of the dead -- Change : Pan and private worship.