Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 64
tmost by the exercises of the gymnasium,and by the ennobling physical and moral effect of completeexposure in heroic nudity, as when the youthful Sophoclesdanced naked, lyre in hand, at the head of the triumphalchoir after Salamis. At Lacedaemon at any rate the samecare was spent on the physical… … Fig. •Female Dancer, from Greek Vase. bare breast and limbs, there were in every part of Greeceprofessional female dancers and flute players of unsurpassedbodily grace, whose performances we may judge of frompictures like Fig. 9, copied from an unpublished vase inthe British Museum. Interest in…
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