Dancing girl
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
dancer · dancing girl · dancing-girl · she · the dancing girl · the flute-girl · the girl · the maid · this girl · this maid
in the texts
Symposium
A skilled acrobatic dancer whose performances prompt philosophical claims about women and courage.
Witnesses of this feat, surely, will never again deny, I feel sure, that courage, like other things, admits of being taught, when this girl, in spite of her sex, leaps so boldly in among the swords!
He had with him a fine flute-girl, a dancing-girl—one of those skilled in acrobatic tricks,—and a very handsome boy, who was expert at playing the cither and at dancing;
For I see that the dancing girl here is standing ready, and that some one is bringing her some hoops.
Anabasis
An unnamed woman who performs a Pyrrhic dance before the Paphlagonians.
Thereupon the Mysian, seeing how astounded they were, persuaded one of the Arcadians who had a dancing girl to let him bring her in, after dressing her up in the finest way he could and giving her a light shield.
And she danced the Pyrrhic with grace.