lesbonax

Updated: May 16, 2025

His performance is as much an intellectual as a physical exercise: there is meaning in his movements; every gesture has its significance; and therein lies his chief excellence. The enlightened Lesbonax of Mytilene called pantomimes 'manual philosophers, and used to frequent the theatre, in the conviction that he came out of it a better man than he went in.

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