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Hyporchema

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A chorus of singers at the festivals of Apollo usually danced around the altar, while several other persons were appointed to accompany the action of the song with an appropriate mimic performance. Hyporchema was thus a lyric dance, and often passed into the playful and comic, whence
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confirm this supposition, for their rhythms are peculiarly light, and have a very imitative and graphic character. These characteristics must have existed in a much higher degree in the hyporchematic songs of Thaletas.
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of Crete: their character must have been in accordance with the playfulness of the dance which bore the same name, and by which they were accompanied. The fragments of the hyporchemata of
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The poems or songs which were accompanied by the hyporchema were likewise called hyporchemata. The first poet to whom such poems are ascribed was
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on his return from Crete was said to have performed in Delos, and which was customary in this island as late as the time of
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of comedy. It had, according to the supposition of Müller, like all the music and poetry of the Dorians, originated in
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Bockh, de Meir. Find. p. 201, &c., and p. 270.
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Athen. i. p. 15 ; Lucian, de Saltat. 16; compare
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Greek
Apollo
Dorians
Theseus
Athenaeus
cordax
Crete
Delos
Lucian
geranos
Theseus
Plutarch
labyrinth
Thaletas
Pindar
Deipnosophistae
Muller
Life of Theseus 21.
Hesychius of Alexandria
public domain
Smith, William
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
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Greek dances
Angelica
Antistrophe

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