Choreutika : performing and theorising dance in Ancient Greece /

Includes bibliographical references.Foreword / by Carmine Catenacci ; 1. Introduction. Ancient dance as a research topic / Laura Gianvittorio ; Part one: performing choral dance: texts and contexts. 2. Moving in unison. The Greek chorus in performance / Frederick G. Naerebout ; 3. Dancing with Stesichorus / Patrick J. Finglass ; 4. A dance of death. Evidence about a tragic dance of mourning / Laura Gianvittorio ; 5. Imagining the shape of choral dance and inventing the cultic in Euripides' later tragedies / Eric Csapo ; Part two: elements of ancient dance theory. 6. Dance as silent poetry, poetry as speaking dance: the poetics of orchesis / Sophie Marianne Bocksberger ; 7. Moving the soul through the immovable: dance and mimesis in fourth-century Greece / Eleonora Rocconi ; 8. Language and dance: a non-Platonising view / Stefan Hagel ; 9. Aristotle's definition of dance / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi