Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    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

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    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!
    chapter 2
    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;
    chapter 2
    For I see that the dancing girl here is standing ready, and that some one is bringing her some hoops.
    chapter 2

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    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.
    book 6
    And she danced the Pyrrhic with grace.
    book 6