Ancient Times

Plato's Academy Recommended Course of Study

“The exact sciences would first be studied for ten years to familiarise the mind with relations that can only be apprehended by thought.”

• • Arithmetic

  • Plane and solid geometry

  • Astronomy

• Harmonics

Plato Quotes on Music

• • Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

  • Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

  • Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  • Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Ancient Theatre

• • Theatre of Ancient Greece - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_theater

  • Greek Theatre - http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/Theater.html

  • History of Ancient Theatre -http://www.tctwebstage.com/ancient.htm

  • Ancient Greek Theatre - http://www.greektheatre.gr/

  • Ancient Theatre - http://www.didaskalia.net/studyarea/introtoancienttheatre.html

  • Ancient Theatre Archive - http://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/home.htm

  • Theatre History - Ancient - http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/

• Database - http://www.theatredatabase.com/

• Ancient Theatre - http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/

• Aristotle - Theatre Database - http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aristotle_001.html

Ancient Dance and Movement

• Ancient Greek Dance (Carnaval) - http://www.carnaval.com/greece/dance/

  • Ancient Egyptian Dance - http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/egyptian-dance.html

  • Ancient Roman Dance (Carnaval) - http://www.carnaval.com/italy/dance/roman_dance.htm

  • Historic Illustrations of Dance - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17289/17289-h/17289-h.htm

Ancient Greece and Rome - Terms, People, Places to Research.

• • Greek and Roman Traditions

  • Plato’s recommended course of study – arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, harmonics

  • Human striving for excellence – body, mind, spirit

  • Aulos

  • Lyre

  • Lute

  • Kithara

  • Tuba

  • Greek Musical Modes

  • Aristotle

  • Plato

  • Greek Theatre

  • Tragedy

  • Comedy

  • Satyr

  • Role of dancing in ancient Greece

  • Greek mythology

  • Gymnopaedia

  • The choral dance

  • Characteristics of Greek dancing