Many Egyptian influences can be found in the Greek dance. Some came by way of Crete, others through the Greek philosophers who went to Egypt to study. The philosopher Plato (c. 428–348/47 bc) was among them, and he became an influential dance theoretician. He distinguished dances that enhance the beauty of the body from awkward movements that imitate the convulsions of ugliness. The Apis cult dances of Egypt had their equivalent in the Cretan bull dance of about 1400 bc. It inspired the labyrinthine dances that, according to legends, Theseus brought to Athens on his return with the liberated youths ...(100 of 11874 words)