Harrison, Jane, 1850-1928 · London : Williams and Norgate · leaf 126
ust a circular dancing-placebeaten flat for the convenience of the dancers,and sometimes edged by a stone basement tomark the circle. This circular orchestra isvery well seen in the theatre of Epidaurus,of which a sketch is given in Fig. 1. Theorchestra here is surrounded by a splendidtheatron, or… … 125 126 ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL convenient dancing-places. The dance tendsto be circular because it is round some sacredthing, at first a maypole, or the reaped corn,later the figure of a god or his altar. On thisdancing-place the whole body of worshipperswould gather, just as now-a-days the…
Art, Primitive · Ritual · Aesthetics · Art and religion · Greek drama (Tragedy)
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