ABSTRACT
The god [Hephaistos] depicted a dancing floor like the one Daidalos designed in the broad city of Knossos for Ariadne of the lovely locks. Youths and nubile maidens danced on it with their hands on one another's wrists, the girls in fine linen with lovely garlands on their heads, and the men in closely woven tunics faintly gleaming with oil, and with daggers of gold hanging from their silver belts. Here they ran lightly round, circling as smoothly on their skilled feet as the potter's clay when he runs it through his hands; and there they ran in lines to meet each other. A large crowd gathered round to watch the delightful dance, with a minstrel among them singing sweetly to a lyre, while acrobats, keeping time with the music, turned cart-wheels in and out among the dancers.
