dancing-piece

Updated: May 6, 2025

We have already set forth how theatrical music and the dancing-piece attained to an independent standing in the development of the stage at this period; we may add that now in Rome itself representations were very frequently given by Greek musicians, dancers, and declaimers on the public stage such as were usual in Asia Minor and generally in the whole Hellenic and Hellenizing world.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

We have already set forth how theatrical music and the dancing-piece attained to an independent standing in the development of the stage at this period; we may add that now in Rome itself representations were very frequently given by Greek musicians, dancers, and declaimers on the public stage such as were usual in Asia Minor and generally in the whole Hellenic and Hellenizing world.

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