Women in dance while Terpsichore was the Muse of dance. In the 6th century BC, the "choros" became a lasting feature of Greek theatre while women known as the Dyonysiac, frequently depicted on Greek vases, dance in frensy, celebrating Dionysus, the god of wine. In Ancient Rome, female singers and dancers performed in the annual celebrations of Isis which included mystery plays representing the resurrection of Osiris. The Bible contains several accounts of women dancing, in particular the celebrations led by Miriam after the crossing of the Red Sea when women are said to have danced and played hand-drums. After David had returned
Ancient Greek phonology or earlier in the history of Greek, but inscriptions do not show the spelling , which suggests that an affricate pronunciation did not occur in the Classical period. Mycenaean Greek had three labialized velar stops , aspirated, tenuis, and voiced. These derived from PIE labiovelars and from sequences of a velar and , and were similar to the three regular velars of Ancient Greek , except with added lip-rounding. They were written all using the same symbols in Linear B, and are transcribed as "q". In Ancient Greek, all labialized velars merged with other stops: labials , dentals , and