castanet-dances

Updated: May 12, 2025

Another novelty was a dancing-school, such as Scipio Aemilianus full of indignation describes in one of his speeches, in which upwards of five hundred boys and girls the dregs of the people and the children of magistrates and of dignitaries mixed up together received instruction from a ballet-master in far from decorous castanet-dances, in corresponding songs, and in the use of the proscribed Greek stringed instruments.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Another novelty was a dancing-school, such as Scipio Aemilianus full of indignation describes in one of his speeches, in which upwards of five hundred boys and girls the dregs of the people and the children of magistrates and of dignitaries mixed up together received instruction from a ballet-master in far from decorous castanet-dances, in corresponding songs, and in the use of the proscribed Greek stringed instruments.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution