Irish dance (typically the top half of dancers graded after the first two rounds) of dancers are invited back to perform. The Céilí dances used in competitions are more precise versions of those danced in less formal settings. There is a list of 30 Céilí dances which have been standardised and published in An Coimisiún's "Ar Rinncidhe Foirne" as examples of typical Irish folk dances; these are called the "book" dances by competitive stepdancers. Most Irish dancing competitions only ask for a short piece of any given dance, in the interests of time. There are two types of shoes; soft shoes (also
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