Square dance square dance, very rarely are two modern Western dances ever alike. Like traditional square dancing, recovering from occasional mistakes is often part of the fun. Dancers are encouraged to dance only those programs at which they are reasonably proficient, the default level of achievement being the Mainstream program. All programs are set by Callerlab, the callers' international association, which also governs the training of callers. Irish and Scottish dances are normally done to traditional tunes. English dances may be done to traditional tunes, though, especially at ceilidhs, there is experimentation with many different musical styles. The two types of American
Types of Women creatures, all of which are also found in Semonides' poem; similar stories are found in poems by Callimachus and Horace. The "Types of Women" shows the clear influence of Hesiod, who tells the story of the creation of the first woman both in the "Theogony" and the "Works and Days". Semonides apparently refers to Hesiod's work in other fragments, and so the poems were probably known to him. Nicole Loraux interprets Semonides' poem as "a polemical reading of Hesiod". She argues that while Hesiod treats all women as essentially similar, Semonides treats them separately – so while Pandora is, in