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Demeter, Triptolemus and Persephone. Relief. c. 440-430 B.C., Athens, National Archaeological Museum, 126
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The aim of the present paper is to investigate the role of dance in ancient Greek mysteries, particularly, in the Eleusinian mysteries. In classical antiquity, the religious sentiment served as a signal for dancing. The ancient Greeks tried to praise the gods as well as to express their personal sensibility to the Divine through dancing. The dance...
