The Farewell Dance to the Dead: The Dancers on the Portal of Trysa’s Heroon and the Xanthos “Dancers Sarcophagus”

This article presents new perspectives concerning the dancers featured on interior of portal Trysa’s Heroon and Xanthos’s “Dancers Sarcophagus,” which became famous at end 19th century. It also focuses interpreting visuals that are today widely accepted as having been wrongly identified “Kalathiskos Dancers” in literature, contradiction to Isabella Benda’s collective analyses a variety dance compositions reflected tomb reliefs. The discussed this approached with view they replications template portraying cultic practices related god Apollo portrayed vases, coins, sculptures, etc. throughout Aegean world. attempt is made cast some light upon meaning Lycian necropolises, seemingly unrelated any necropolis or death cult outside Lycia. Apollo, together contemporary past archaeological, epigraphic philological data have brought interpret these artifacts. And context, cultural elites Trysa Xanthos interpreted heroes, themselves predisposed trans-Aegean worship Apollo.