{"id":1223,"date":"2009-10-13T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2009-10-13T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:23:00","slug":"dancing-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Sannion<\/a>, links to a site of choreographers who attempt to reconstruct ancient Greek choral dance.<\/a> (Scroll down for videos.)

Here dancers and drummers perform <\/a>while a rhapsode<\/em><\/a> declaims the Catalog of Ships<\/a> from the Iliad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s one of those interesting ideas that goes into the “But we’ll never know for sure” file. (Or does it smell too much of the lamp?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Sannion, links to a site of choreographers who attempt to reconstruct ancient Greek choral dance. (Scroll down for videos.)Here dancers and drummers perform while a rhapsode declaims the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad. I suppose it’s one of those interesting ideas that goes into the “But we’ll never know for sure” file. 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