Modern writers
Bibliography
on Ancient Greek dance by modern writers
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Warren D. Anderson: Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece
C. Andresen: “Altchristliche Kritik am Tanz. Ein Ausschnitt aus dem Kampf der alten Kirche gegen heidnische Sitte” Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 4th s. 10 (1961) 217-262.
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Sheramy D. Bundrick: Music and image in classical Athens
C. Batteux: Précis de la danse ancienne et moderne, Paris, 1750.
Luigi Beschi: Education and the Art of Music
Luigi Beschi: Παιδια και μουσικη τεχνη
Erwin Bielefeld: “Ein boiotischer Tanzchor des 6 Jh. v. Chr.”. [ACR]
L. V. Borrelli: “Danza” in Enciclopedia dell’arte antica, classica e orientale 3 (Rome 1960) 5 8 (see other articles in the same dictionary).
E. Brandt: Gruss und Gebet. Eine Studie zu Gebärden in der minoisch mykenischen und frühgriechischen Kunst. Waldsassen, 1965.
L. Breitholtz: Die dorische Farce im griechischen Mutterland vor dem 5. Jahrhundert. Hypothese oder Realität. Uppsala, 1960.
J. N. Bremmer: “Greek maenadism reconsidered” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 55 (1984) 267-286.
Michel Briand: «La danse et la philologie. A partir du mouvement strophique dans les scholies anciennes à Pindare» in Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne 2, Presses Universitaires du France-Compté, 93-106 [ACR]
A. Brinck: Inscriptiones graecae ad choregiam pertinentes, Halle, 1886.
P. Brind’Amour: “L’origine des jeux séculaires” in W. Haase (ed.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt vol. 16,2 (Berlin 1978) 1334-1417.
August Brinkmann: “Altgriechische Mädchenreigen” in Bonner Jahrbücher 130 (1925) 118-146. [ACR]
F. Brommer: “Antike Tänze” in Archäologischer Anzeiger 1989, 483-494.
Christiane Bron: “The sword dance for Artemis” in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 24, 1996.
P. Bruneau : Recherches sur les cultes de Délos à l’époque hellénistique et à l’époque impériale. Paris, 1970.
P. J. Burette: “Premier et second mémoire pour servir à l’histoire de la danse des anciens”. Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Letters 1 (1717) 121-176.
Ernst Buschor: Satyrtänze und frühes Drama. München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1943.
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L. de Cahusac: La danse ancienne et moderne, ou traité historique de la danse. Hague, 1754.
Claude Calame: Les choeurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaique. Rome, 1977 (partial English translation, London 1997).
Vanessa Cazzato, André Lardinois: The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual: Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 1
Paola Ceccarelli: La pirrica nell’antichità greco romana. Studi sulla danza armata. Università degli studi di Urbino, Pisa/Rome, 1998, 274 p.
Paola Ceccarelli: “Dance and deserts. An analysis of book fourteen,” in: D. Braund & J. Wilkins (ed.), Athenaeus and his world. Reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (Exeter 2000) 272-291
Jette Christiansen & Torben Melander (ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on ancient Greek and related pottery. Copenhagen, 1987 (Copenhagen, 1988) 269-277.
C. Compan : Dictionnaire de la danse. Paris, 1787.
A. B. Cook: “Floating islands” in: Zeus. A study in ancient religion, vol. 3 (Cambridge, 1940) 975-1015.
Sachs, Curt: World history of the dance. New York, Norton, p. 237-245
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Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Les danses armées en Grèce antique. Aix-en-Provence, 1993. [ACR]
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Les danses pacifiques en Grèce antique. Aix-en-Provence, 1994. [ACR]
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Les danses dionysiaques en Grèce antique. Aix-en Provence, 1995. [ACR]
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Ancient Greek dance as therapy
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Ancient Greek dance as therapy and Antiquity in the countemporaneous therapy dance
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Comparison between dionysiac female dance in ancient Greece and dervishes’ ceremony from Middle Ages to nowadays in Turkey
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Danses féminines, espace de liberté ou de contraintes ? L’exemple des danses initiatiques pour Artémis en Grèce antique
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Greek dances of Antiquity recreated by Maurice Racol
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux (ed.): Musiques et danses dans l’Antiquité. Rennes, Presses Universitaires, 2011, 326 p. [ACR]
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: More than movement : the use of voice in ancient Greek dance
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Promotion of diversity in the choreography : an original dance, using voice and mask, in the beginning of the parodos of Euripides’Bacchaeparodos of Euripides’Bacchae
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Recherches sur la danse dans l’Antiquité Grecque. Thèse de doctorat. Université d’Aix-Marseille, 1991, 3 volumes, 831 p. [ACR]
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: The beginning of an original dance in ancient greek comedy : the frogs who wanted to become swans (Aristophanes Frogs 209-220)
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Using Greek Folk Dances for the Reconstruction of Ancient Greek Dances
G. Desrat : Dictionnaire de la danse, historique, théorique, pratique et bibliographique, Paris, 1895 (reprint Hildesheim 1977).
E.R. Dodds: “Maenadism in the Bacchae” in Harvard Theological Review 33 (1940) 155-176 (partly reprinted in Dodds, The Greeks and the irrational, Berkeley 1951)
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Stamatia Eleftheratou et al. (ed.): Acropolis Museum guide. Athens, 2017, 323 p. [ACR]
Maurice Emmanuel: De saltationis disciplina apud Graecos. Paris, 1895.
Maurice Emmanuel: Essai sur l’orchestique grecque. Paris, 1895 (reprint Amsterdam 1971).
Emmanuel, Maurice: La danse grecque antique d’après les monuments figurés. Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1967 (1896). [ACR]
Maurice Emmanuel: Ancient Greek dance. New York/London, 1916. [ACR]
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Giulio Ferrario: La danza nell’Antica Grecia. Roma, Tinto Editore, 1928, 31 p. [ACR]
S. Ferri: “Choros kuklikos, Nuovi documenti archeologici e vecchia tradizione letteraria” in Rivista del Reale Instituto d’Archeologia e Storia dell’ Arte 3 (1931) 299-330.
Vincenzo Festa: Sikinnis. Storia di un’ antica danza. Napoli, Memoria alla Reale Academia di Napoli, Tipografia Cimmaruta dell’ Università 1915, 74 p. [ACR]
J.W. Fitton: “Greek dance” in Classical Quarterly 23 (1973) 254-274.
Georgia Franzius: Tänzer und Tänze in der archaischen Vasenmalerei. Göttingen, Göttingen, Universität zu Göttingen, Philos. Fak., Diss., 1973, 636 p. [ACR]
H. Froning: Dithyrambos und Vasenmalerei in Athen. Würzburg, 1971.
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Thrasybulos Georgiades: Der griechische Rhythmus. Musik, Reigen, Vers und Sprache. Hamburg, Schröder, 1949 (English translation New York 1956).
Thrasybulos Georgiades: Music und Rhythmus bei den Griechen. Germany, Rowohlt, 1958. [ACR]
P. Ghiron Bistagne: Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique. Paris, 1976.
Laura Gianvittorio: A dance of death. Evidence about a tragic dance of mourning. In: Choreutika. Performing and theorising dance in ancient Greece. Roma, 2017.
Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira: “Pyrrhic dance and female pyrrhic dancers,” RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter 21.1 (1996) 3-12.
L. Grasberger: Erziehung und Unterrricht im klassischen Altertum. Würzburg, 1864, 1880 (reprint Aalen, 1971).
A. Greifenhagen: Eine attische schwarzfigurige Vasengattung und die Darstellung des Komos im 6. Jahrhundert, Königsberg, 1929.
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Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Gifts of the Muses. Echoes of music and dance from Ancient Greece. Exhibition catalogue (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού : Μουσών Δώρα, μουσικοί και χορευτικοί απόηχοι από την Αρχαία Ελλάδα). Athens, 2004. [ACR]
A. Henrichs: “Warum soll ich den tanzen?” Dionysisches im Chor der griechischen Tragödie, Stuttgart/Leipzig, 1996.
A. Henrichs: “Greek maenadism from Olympias to Messalina,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82 (1978) 121-160.
J. Herington: Poetry into drama: early tragedy and the Greek poetic tradition. Berkeley, 1985.
H. Herter: Vom Dionysischen Tanz zum komischen Spiel. Die Anfänge der attischen Komödie, Iserlohn, 1947.
H. Heydemann: Verhüllte Tänzerin. Bronze im Museum zu Turin, Halle, 1879.
R. Hurschmann: “Askoliasmos,” in: Der Neue Pauly, vol. 2 (Stuttgart 1997) col. 100.
– J –
K. F. Johansen: Thésée et la danse à Délos. Etude herméneutique. Copenhagen, 1945.
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K. G. Kahler: “Der Tanz im antiken Griechenland” in: Antike Welt, 3, 1974, p. 3-14. [ACR]
Gayle Kassing: Ancient Greece, excerpt from: History of Dance.
S. N. Khudekov: Istoriya tanchev, vol. 1, St. Petersburg, 1913.
J. H. Krause: Die Gymnastik und Agonistik der Hellenen, Leipzig, 1841.
F. Kolb: Agora und Theater, Volks und Festversammlung. Berlin, 1981.
H. Koller: Die Mimesis in der Antike. Nachahmung, Darstellung, Ausdruck. Bern, 1954.
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Voula Lambropoulou: Dances of masquers and the birth of theatre.
Voula Lampropoulou: Philosophy of the sexes (in Greek: Λαμπροπούλου, Βούλα: Φιλοσοφία τωνφύλων, μέρος 2. Αθήνα, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, 1986. [ACR]
Charikleia Lanara-Voyatzi: On Dances. Gifts of the Muses. Echoes of Music and Dance from Ancient Greece Athens 2004, 86-91 p.
John G. Landels: Music in Ancient Greece and Rome
Kurt Latte: De saltationibus Graecorum capita quinque. Giessen, A. Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker) 1913 (reprint with corrigenda et addenda Berlin 1967). [online text & pdf]
Lillian B. Lawler, The maenads: A contribution to the study of the dance in ancient Greece’ Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 6 (1927) 69-112.
Lillian B. Lawler: Terpsichore: The Story of Dance in Ancient Greece. Dance Perspectives 13: 1962.
Lillian B. Lawler: The dance in ancient Greece. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, (1964) 1978, 160 p. [ACR]
Lillian B. Lawler: The dance in Ancient Greece (in Greek). Athens, 1984 [ACR]
Lillian B. Lawler: The dance of the ancient Greek theatre. Iowa City, 1964 (reprint Iowa 1974), 135 p. [ACR]
Lillian B. Lawler: Ladles, tubs, and the Greek dance. American Journal of Philology, 71/1, 1950.
Lillian B. Lawler: Ορχησις φοβερά.
Lillian B. Lawler: Airein Maschalên and associated orchestic Schêmata. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 80 (1949), pp. 230-237.
S. H. Lonsdale: Dance and ritual play in Greek religion. Baltimore, 1993.
Lech Z. Niekrasz: Tropami antyku po Grecji. Warsaewa, Ksiazka I Wiedza, 2006. [ACR]
Rogiros Loizidis: Music and dance in ancient Sparta (in Greek). Nicosia, 1968. [ACR]
– M –
Isacus I. Mackej: Orchestra sive de saltationibus veterum dissertatio. Uppsala, 1685.
Stella Mandalaki-Spanou: The dance in Minoan Crete
Aldo Masella: La danza. Orme nel tempo. Balletto di Milano, 2009, 237 p. [ACR]
Aldo Masella: Le radici della Danza. Appunti di storia. Milano, 2017, 126 p. [ACR]
Aldo Masella: Storia della danza. Balletto di Milano, TuttoDanza, 2008, 224 p. [ACR]
Joannes Meursius: Orchestra, sive de saltationibus veterum. Liber singularis. Leiden, 1618. [ACR]
Sarah McCleave: Dance in context. Music & Letters, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 79-88, Oxford University Press.
R. MacMullen: Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven, 1981.
S. Michaelides: The music of ancient Greece, an encyclopedia. London, 1978 (Greek translation
J. Miller: Measures of wisdom. The cosmic dance in classical and Christian antiquity. Toronto, 1986.
M. E. Molloy: Libanius and the dancers. Hildesheim, 1996.
W. Mullen: Choreia. Pindar and the dance, Princeton, 1982.
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Frederick G. Naerebout: “Text and images as sources for the study of dance in ancient Greece” in Pharos 3, 1995, 23-40.
Frederick G. Naerebout: Attractive performances. Ancient Greek dance. Three preliminary studies. Amsterdam, Gieben, 1997, 451 p. [ACR]
Frederick G. Naerebout: La danza greca antica. Lecce, Manni, 2001. [ACR]
Frederick G. Naerbout & Alkis Raftis (ed.): Joannes Meursius and his “Orchestra, sive de saltationibus veterum” of 1618, the first monograph on ancient Greek dance since Antiquity. Athens, Dora Stratou Dance Theater, 2003, 85 p. [ACR]
Frederick G. Naerebout: Dance, dancing, Greece and Rome. In: Bagnall R.S., Brodersen K., Champion C.B., Erskine A., Huebner S.R. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Boston/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 1924-1926. [online]
Frederick G. Naerebout: “Moving Events Dance at Public Events in the Ancient Greek World Thinking through its Implications”, in Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 37-67. [online]
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Pauly’s Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart, 1932. Tanzkunst, p. 2233-2247.
Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge: The dramatic festivals of Athens. Oxford, 1968 (2nd ed. rev. by J. Gould & D. M. Lewis).
Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge: Dithyramb, tragedy and comedy. Oxford, 1962 (2nd ed. rev. by T.B.L. Webster).
J. Poerner: De curetibus et corybantibus. Halle, 1913.
J.C. Poursat: “Les représentations de danse armée dans la céramique attique” in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 92 (1968) 550-615.
Germaine Prudhommeau: La danse grecque antique. Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1965, 2 volumes. [ACR]
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Alkis Raftis (ed): Dance and Ancient Greece, in Greek (Χορός και Αρχαία Ελλάδα. Πρακτικά 5ουΔιεθνούς Συνεδρίου). Athens, 1991. [ACR]
Alkis Raftis: Dance in Ancient Greece
Alkis Raftis: Dance in Classical Greece. A Handbook
Alkis Raftis & Anna Lazou (ed.): Dance and Ancient Greece, in Greek (Χορός και ΑρχαίαΕλλάδα). Athens, 2002. [ACR]
L. Robert: “Pantomimen im griechischen Orient,” Hermes 65 (1930) 106-122 (reprinted in Opera minora selecta vol. 1, Amsterdam 1969)
Ervin Roos: Die tragische Orchestik im Zerrbild der altattischen Komödie. Stockholm, Wahlstrom & Widstrad, 1951. [ACR]
Ervin Roos: “Grecia I,5: la danza,” in: Enciclopedia dello spettacolo vol. 5 (Rome 1958) 1678-1682.
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Joseph Salathiel Tunison: The Sapphic stanza. A tentative study in Greek metrical, tonal and dancing art. USA, Granville, Ohio, University Press, 1896, 44p. [ACR]
P. Scarpi: “La pyrriche o le armi della persuasione. Appunti per una semiologia storico religiosa e anthropologica,” Dialoghi di Archeologia, n.s. 1 (1979) 78-97.
H. Schnabel: Kordax. Archäologische Studien zur Geschichte eines antiken Tanzes und zum Ursprung der griechischen Komödie. Munich, 1910.
Otto Schneider & Riki Raab: Tanzlexikon der Gesellschafts….. Wien, Brüder Hollinek, 1985.
H. Schreckenberg: Drama. Vom Werden der griechischen Tragödie aus dem Tanz; eine philologische Untersuchung. Würzburg, 1960.
A. Seeberg: Corinthian komos vases. London, 1971.
Louis Séchan: “Saltatio,” in: Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romains, vol. 4 (Paris 1909) 1025-1054.
Louis Séchan: La danse grecque antique. Paris, E. de Boccard, 1930, 371 p. [ACR] Texte complet sans images.
Louis Séchan: Vin, ivresse et danse. In La danse grecque antique. Paris, Boccard, 1930, p. 252-253.
Louis Séchan: Ariadne. In La danse grecque antique. Paris, Boccard, 1930, p. 60-61.
Bernard Sergent: “Le sens d’une danse spartiate,” Dialogues d’histoire ancienne 19.2 (1993) 161-178.
C. Sittl: Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer. Leipzig, 1890 (reprint Hildesheim, 1970).
Tyler Jo Smith: “Dances, drinks and dedications: the archaic komos in Laconia” in: W. G. Cavanagh & S. E. C. Walker (ed.), Sparta in Laconia. Proceedings of the 19th British Museum Classical Colloquium (London 1998) 75-81.
Tyler Jo Smith: “Dancing spaces and dining places: archaic komasts at the symposium,” in: G. R. Tsetskhaladze, A. J. N. W. Prag & A. M. Snodgrass (ed.), Periplous. Papers on archaeology presented to Sir John Boardman (London 2000) 309-319.
Tyler Jo Smith: “Komastai or ‘Hephaistoi’? Visions of comic parody In Archaic Greece. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 52 (2009), pp. 69-92. [ACR]
William Smith: Saltatio, in: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.
C. Sourvinou-Inwood: Studies in girls’ transitions. Aspects of the Arkteia and age representation in Attic iconography. Athens, 1988.
84. Special issue of Arion 3.1 (1994-1995) (several articles)
I. E. Stefanis: Διονυσιακοί τεχνίται: συμβολές στην προσωπογραφία του θεάτρου και της μουσικής των αρχαίων Ελλήνων. Heraklion, University Publications of Crete, 1988, 616 p.
F. Stoessl: Die Vorgeschichte des griechischen Theaters. Darmstadt, 1987.
V. Svetlov: “Istoricheskii ocherk’ drevnei khoregrafii,” in: Ezhegodnik’ Imperatorskikh’ Teatrov’ Sezon’ (St. Petersburg 1899 1900, 2nd supplement) 29 120.
David J. Symons: Costume of Ancient Greece. New York, Chelsea, 1987, 64 p. [ACR]
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Paul Thielscher: “Ein Blick auf die Reigentänze der griechischen Tragödie” in: Das Altertum 7 (1961), S. 3-19.
D. B. Thompson: “A bronze dancer from Alexandria”. American Journal of Archaeology 54 (1950) 371-385.
Renate Tölle: Frühgriechische Reigentänze. Stiftland, Waldsassen, 1964. [ACR]
Georgios Tsangaris: Dictionary of ancient Greek music and orchestic (in Greek: Τσαγκάρης, Γιώργος: Λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής μουσικής και ορχηστρικής. Αθήνα, Κάκτος, 1999. [ACR]
Catherina Tsekoura (ed.): Dance in Antiquity (Ο χορός στην Αρχαιότητα) in Greek. Athens, Archaeologia 90, 2004. [ACR]
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M. Vesterinen: “Communicative aspects of ancient Greek dance,” Arctos 31 (1997) 175-187.
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B. Warnecke: “Tanzkunst” in: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 2nd s. vol. 4 (Stuttgart 1932) 2233-2247.
J. Weaver: An essay towards a history of dancing, London, 1712 (reprint London 1985, ed. by R. Ralph).
T. B. L. Webster: The Greek chorus. London, 1970.
T. B. L. Webster: Potter and patron in classical Athens. London, 1972.
M. Wegner: Das Musikleben der Griechen, Berlin, 1949.
M. Wegner: Musik und Tanz, Göttingen, 1968.
Fritz Weege: Der Tanz in der Antike. Halle/Saale, M. Niemeyer, 1926 (reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1976).
E. L. Wheeler: “Hoplomachia and Greek dances in arms” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 23 (1982) 223-233.
Smith, William: Dance, from A dictionary of Greek and Roman
antiquities. London, John Murray, 1875.
Ronald F. Willetts: Cretan cults and festivals. London, Routledge, 1962, 362 p. [ACR]
P. Wilson: The Athenian institution of the khoregia. The chorus, the city and the stage. Cambridge, 2000.
N O T E S
- Full text of some of the above can be found at http://writings.orchesis-portal.org
- Books or articles marked [ACR] can be consulted at the library of the Dora Stratou Dance Theater in Athens, www.grdance.org
- For publications on the revival of Ancient Greek dance go to www.revival.orchesis-portal.org
- I will be grateful for the contribution of publications missing from the list above. Please feel free to send them to Alkis Raftis at mail@grdance.org
Texts in Greek – Κείμενα στα ελληνικά
Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux: Οι ενόπλιοι χοροί στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα.
Εισαγωγή στο βιβλίο ‘Μουσών δώρα. Μουσικοί και χορευτικοί απόηχοι από την αρχαία Ελλάδα’.
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού : Μουσών Δώρα, μουσικοί και χορευτικοί απόηχοι από την Αρχαία Ελλάδα). Athens, 2004. [ACR]
Λαμπροπούλου, Βούλα: Φιλοσοφίατωνφύλων, μέρος 2. Αθήνα, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, 1986. [ACR]
Ρογήρος Λοϊζίδης: Η μουσική και ο χορός στην αρχαία Σπάρτη. Λευκωσία, Ραδιοφωνικό Ιδρυμα Κύπρου, 1968, 156 σελ
Ρογήρος Λοϊζίδης: Η μουσική και ο χορός στην αρχαία Σπάρτη. Λευκωσία, Ραδιοφωνικό Ιδρυμα Κύπρου, 1968, 156 σελ.
Σόλων Μιχαηλίδης: Εγκυκλοπαίδεια της αρχαίας ελληνικής μουσικής. Αθήνα, ΜΙΕΤ, 1989). [ACR]
Ανώνυμος: Ο αρχαίος ελληνικός χορός. Η επίκαιρη ανάγκη για τη μελέτη της σημασίας και της ιστορίας του. Σημειώσεις. Πριν το 1994.