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.
society with bad
replied Socrates.
replied Socrates.
Anabasis
An unnamed woman who performs a Pyrrhic dance before the Paphlagonians.
And she danced the Pyrrhic with grace.
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.