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Being almost altogether composed, not for a reading, but a listening public, it was closely associated with other arts, especially those of music and dancing, so as to form an essential part of many great public festivals. The prize of laurel wreath was given for the best song in honour of Apollo to the accompaniment of the lyre. Dionysus is especially a woman's deity, and he comes from the east conducted by a chorus of gracious Lydian women, his true sisters— Bassarids, clad like himself in the long tunic, or bassara. And the fortune of the myth has not deserted it in later times. He was not only a consummate general, whose name will always be associated with the irresistible phalanx which anticipated that of Macedonia, [2] but was in every respect a great man—the greatest of the Greeks, according to Cicero.

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