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Title: Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Becker, W. A. (Wilhelm Adolf), 1796-1846 Metcalfe, Frederick, 1815-1885
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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pwTrov?,fiifj-ovg yeXoitoi Kal iroirirag alrr-^pwi ^cr^artur, (by tig rovg trvy-oyrag Trowvoriy eyeKa rov ytXaaOFfyai. At the courts of thesuccessors of Alexander things reached a still lower ebb. Thuswe are told that naked Thessalian w^omen danced before Antigonos. Athen xiii. p. G07. But pure Greek manners began,from this period, rajjidly to decline. Music and the dance were certainly favourite amusements atthe symposia. Female flute-players were indispensable for thesacrifice; they usually remained in attendance, and there are butfew antiques representing symposia where cither they or citha-ristriaj are not present. Plato would willingly have dispensedwitli them ; as we see from Symp. p. 176 : rijy /uey apri eiaeX-dovtray avXrjrpi^a ■)^aipeiy lav avXovcrav eavrfj, Tj eay ye ßovXrirai,Tolg yvvaill ralg hh>y. He uses stronger language still in Pro-tag, p. 347 : OTTov Zf. KaXol Kuyiidoi ^vfj-vrorai Kal ireTrai?evfityot£tcly, ovK ay iloig ovr avXrjrpi^agy (Vre onyriarpilag^ ovrt
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Scene VI.) THE SYMPOSIA. 347 \pnXrpiac, ctXXct avrovc avrnlg iKavovg oiTag Evtelyrn. Plutiirch,Sjpnp. vii. 7, 8, differs on this point from Plato, and indeed thelatter seems rather too severe in his strictures on music anddancing. In many cases still graver objections might be urged againstthe presence of these flute-players, and most likely they wereoiten but little removed from hetaerae. In Plautus they arealways such, and the same is unequivocally apparent in manyvase-paintings. See a curious story related by the Stoic Persaeus,apud Athen, xiii. p. G07. On the subject of the other amuse-ments, the games, and so forth, consult the notes to Scene vi.,as well as the following Excursus. EXCURSUS III. TO SCENE VI. THE GAMES. OF the various games enumerated by Pollux, ix. 7, un ^erthe title, Ilepi twv kv avjiwoaioLQ Trat^twr, many Avere peculiarto the Symposion, while others were merely the amusements ofchildren; the discussion of the latter would be foreign to ourpresent purpose, though

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