discipline and the establishment of a principle of subordination,
not merely the encouragement of a taste for the fine arts, were the
objects which these rude legislators had in view; and though there
is no doubt that religious feelings entered largely into all their
thoughts and actions, yet the god whom they worshipped was a
god of war[1], of music[2], and of civil government[3], in other words,
a Dorian political deity; and with these attributes his worship and
the maintenance of their system were one and the same thing.
This intimate connexion of religion and war among the Dorians is
shown by a corresponding identity between the chorus which sang
the praises of the national deity, and the army which marched to
fight the national enemies. These two bodies were composed, in
the former case inclusively, of the same persons ; they were drawn
up in the same order, and the different parts in each were distin-
guished by the same names. Good dancers and good fighters were
alike termed (
Greek characters), i.e. (Greek characters), or "men of the vanguard[4];"
those whose station was in the rear of the battle array, or of the
chorus, were in either case called (Greek characters), or "unequipped[5];" and
the evolutions of the one body were known by the same name as
the figures of the other[6]. It was likewise owing to this conviction
of the importance of musical harmony, that the Dorians teraied the
constitution of a state — an order or regulative principle ((Greek characters)).
- ↑ (
Greek characters) — (Greek characters), "the defender" (Müller's Dor. II. ch. 6, § 6), who caused
terror to the hostile army. Æsch. Sept. c. Theb. 147.
- ↑ He was particularly the inventor of the lyre — the original accompaniment of
Choral Poetry. Pind. Pyth. v. 67 : ((Greek characters)) (Greek characters)
- ↑ "The belief in a fixed system of laws, of which Apollo was the executor, formed
the foundation of all prophecy in his worship." Müller, Dor. ii. 8, § 10. The Delphian oracle was the regulator of all the Dorian law-systems; hence its injunctions were called (Greek characters), or "ordinances." See the authorities in Müller, II. 8, § 8.
- ↑ See Varronianus, p. 314; cf. Athen. xiv. p. 628 F: (Greek characters)
- ↑ Müller thinks (Götting. Gel. Anz. for 1821, p. 1051) that they were so called, because they were not so well dressed as the front-row dancers.
- ↑ See Müller's Dorians, B. iii. c. 12, § 10; B. IV. c. 6, § 4. And add to the passages cited by him, Eurip. Troad. 2, 3 : (Greek characters) Herc. Fur. 967 : 6 5' (Greek characters)
