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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gymnopaedia
		While for the earliest of these authors the meaning of gymnopaedia appears predominantly as a festival (including several dances, sports, etc,...), in the later periods of antiquity gymnopaedia is referred to as a particular dance.
		In ancient Sparta, the Gymnopaedia was, since approximately 650 BC, a yearly celebration during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of dancing.
		gymnopaedia partly consist ed of mimic representations, as the establishment of the dances and musical entertainments at this festival was ascribed to the musicians-, at the h ad of whom was Thaletas.
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	Gymnopaedia
		The word ''gymnopaedia'' is composed of and#947;and#965;and#956;and#957;and#972;and#962; (''gymnos'' - "naked") and the plural of and#960;and#945;and#953;and#948;and#943;and#959;and#957; (''paidion'' - "child").
		Apart from "gymnopaedia", modern transliterations include "Gymnopaidiai" (mostly older translations of Greek texts, maintaining a ''plural'' form for the word), "gymnopedia", "gymnopedie" and "gymnopédie" (in French (language)French, or when referring to the Erik Satie compositions, see Gymnopédie).
		In ancient Sparta, the Gymnopaedia was, since approximately 650 BC, a yearly celebration during which nuditynaked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of dancing.
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	Gymnopédies - Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-18)
		Regarding Greek Antiquity Otfried Müller was esteemed as one of the major authorities for many decades continuing after his accidental death in 1840.
		Even if France, in general, was probably less prim in those days, F. Fertiault, when publishing a "picturesque and anecdotic" dance history book in Paris in 1854, succeeded in describing the history of Ancient Greek dance, including the "gymnopédie", without mentioning or illustrating nudity, leave alone homosexuality, once.
		Neither the martial aspects, nor the context of religious ceremony of the Ancient Greek gymnopaedia were mentioned, for that matter.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Laws (Plato)
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		Gymnasium (ancient Greece) and Gymnopaedia - Military exercise, sports and dancing as an educational asset.
		The gymnasium of the Greeks originally functioned as the school where competitors in the public games received their training, and was so named from the circumstance that these competitors exercised naked (gymnos).
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	Gymnopaedia : search word
		'''Gymnopaedia''' derives from the ancient Greek γυμνοπαιδία;, a festivity in Sparta, where naked youths would perform war dances.
		The term appears in texts of Herodotus, and several authors in the Attic and Koiné periods Apart from "gymnopaedia", modern transliterations include "Gymnopaidiai" (mostly older translations of Greek texts, maintaining a plural form for the word), "gymnopedia", "gymnopedie" and "gymnopédie" (in French, or when reffering to the Erik Satie compositions, see Gymnopédie).
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	Gymnopaedia - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
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		Gymnopaedia (also written Gymnopaediae or Gymnopaidiai) derives from the ancient Greek
		The word Gymnopaedia is composed of Apart from "Gymnopaedia", modern transliterations include "Gymnopaidiai" (mostly older translations of Greek texts, maintaining a plural form for the word), "gymnopedia", "gymnopedie" and "gymnopédie" (in French, or when referring to the Erik Satie compositions, see Gymnopédie).
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 584 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-18)
		The statues of these deities stood in a part of the Agora called xopos, and it was around these statues that, at the gymnopaedia, Spartan youths performed their choruses and dances in honour of Apollo.
		This event seems to have been closely connected with the gymnopaedia, for those Spartans who had fallen on that, occasion were always praised in songs at this festival.
		gymnopaedia partly consist ed of mimic representations, as the establishment of the dances and musical entertainments at this festival was ascribed to the musicians-, at the h ad of whom was Thaletas.
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	Gymnopaedia Information
		In ancient Sparta the Gymnopaedia was a yearly celebration during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of dancing.
		Gymnopaedia (also written Gymnopaediae or Gymnopaidiai) derives from the ancient Greek Γυμνοπαιδίαι.
		Some 8 centuries after the first gymnopaedia had been presented, it still survived in Lacedaemonia.
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	Gymnopaedia - about Gymnopaedia - human edited encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-18)
		This article is about the Ancient Greek Gymnopaedia festival and dance.
		In ancient Sparta the Gymnopaedia was a yearly celebration during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of dancing.
		Gymnopaedia (also written Gymnopaediae or Gymnopaidiai) derives from the ancient Greek Γυμνοπαιδίαι.
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	Gymnopaedia: Encyclopedia II - Gymnopaedia - Etymology
		The word gymnopaedia is composed of γυμνός (gymnos - "naked") and the plural of παιδίον (paidion - "child").
		Apart from "gymnopaedia", modern transliterations include "Gymnopaidiai" (mostly older translations of Greek texts, maintaining a plural form for the word), "gymnopedia", "gymnopedie" and "gymnopédie" (in French, or when referring to the E...
		Gymnopaedia, Gymnopaedia - Etymology, Gymnopaedia - Gymnopaedia in ancient Greece, Gymnopaedia - The gymnopaedia festival, Gymnopaedia - Roman era
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	math lessons - Gymnopédie
		This article is about the gymnopedie as it appeared in late 19th century poetry and music, for gymnopedie as it appeared in Greek antiquity: see gymnopaedia
		This article, apart from describing the compositions and their orchestration by Claude Debussy, also treats the background to which Satie and his friend, the poet Contamine de Latour, chose to use of the word gymnopédie, which refers to an Ancient Greek dance, the gymnopaedia.
		As the original gymnopaedia was danced in Sparta by naked boys, some see this as a not-so-subtle allusion to Satie's supposed homosexuality.
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		: This article is about the Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Gymnopaedia festival and dance.
		the "gymnopédies" by Erik Satie : see Gymnopédie Gymnopaedia derives from the History of the Greek language ancient Greek γυμνοπαιδία;, a festivity in Sparta, where nudity naked youths would perform war dances.
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	Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 eBook
		The Alexandrian grammarians put Alcman at the head of the lyric canon; perhaps partly because they thought him the most ancient, but he was certainly much esteemed in classic times.
		Aelian says his songs were sung at the first performance of the gymnopaedia at Sparta in 665 B.C., and often afterward.
		Much of his poetry was erotic; but he wrote also hymns to the gods, and ethical and philosophic pieces.
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	Historical Pankration Project - Historical-Pankration.com
		This apparent emphasis on rhythm suggests that training drills, like "hoplite dances", were free flowing imitations of the actual movements used in combat.
		In Sparta and other Greek cities, gymnopaedia, or "naked dancing", was crucial aspect of warrior training, and in it was mirrored many of the athletic pursuits of the Greeks, from wrestling and Pankration to phalanx techniques.
		In his 360 BC work Laws, Plato describes the Pyrrhic "War Dance" as follows: "The war dance has a different character, and may be properly called the Pyrrhic.
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	Gymnopédie - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The present article also goes in to the question whether that is necessarily so.
		religious ceremony/festivity (which was the context of the Ancient gymnopaedia) - probably neither, there seems to be no allusion made to this in the poem.
		That book (Histoire anecdotique et pittoresque de la danse chez les peuples anciens et modernes) gives on page 21 following definition of the Gymnopédie, which the author designates as a tragic (i.e.
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		GymnopÃ©die - 19th century music an poetry referring to gymnopaedia.
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	Definition of gymnopaedia - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Sparta religion essays
		The Hyakinthia was a festival to celebrate the death of Hyakinthos who was the lover of the God Apollo and died when Apollo accidentally hit him with a discus.
		These festivals include the Hyakinthia, the Gymnopaedia, the cult of Artemis Orthis and the Karneia which was an extremely important festival for the Spartans.
		One young man, who first prayed to the city-god ran, while other unmarried men, who were called the grape-cluster runners, chased him.
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	Gymnopaedia Did You Mean gymnopaedia?
		While for the earliest of these authors the meaning of gymnopaedia appears predominantly as a festival (including several dances, sports, etc,w/.), in the later periods of antiquity gymnopaedia is referred to as a particular dance.
		Article on Gymnopaedia, category, different spelling or sense
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	Dance in Ancient and Modern Greece
		The paen began on Crete and was used primarily by the worshippers of Apollo.
		Another way Greeks worshipped Apollo was through the Gymnopaedia Festivals, celebrations held for Apollo in Sparta on the Greek mainland.
		They were performed by three dance choruses: young boys, mature men, and old men.
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	FatherMag.com Interview
		Tacitus notes that naked boys entertained at feasts by demonstrating a sort of fast paced running and jumping dance amid swords.
		This is very similar to the Gymnopaedia festival of the Spartans where boys performed stylized dances representing their various martial and athletic abilities.
		Spartan boys rose early and spend the day in education and training.
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	Erik Satie: news group
		In ancient Greece, the Gymnopaedia were festivities which took place in Sparta every July.
		The songs and dances, which also went under the name of Gymnopaedia, glorified dead heros and the Gods.
		Satie's Gymnopédies date from 1888 and were probably conceived as funeral music.
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		"Containing: new pages from Gymnopaedia No. 4 and a catalog raisonne for the years 1978-2005."
		Barb's 1991 conference, "Whither the Book?" at the University of Wisconsin, inspired the Future of the Book, www.
	www.futureofthebook.com /2006/01/10 (269 words)

	Works of Lucian, Vol. II: Of Pantomime
		A youth leads off the dance: his active steps are such as will hereafter be of use to him on the field of battle: a maiden follows, with the modest movements that befit her sex; manly vigour, maidenly reserve,--these are the beads of the necklace.
		Similarly, their Gymnopaedia is but another form of dance.
		As to the Phaeacians, living as they did in the lap of luxury, nothing is more natural than that they should have rejoiced in the dance.
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