The Pyrrhichios or Pyrrhike dance (“Pyrrhic dance“; Ancient Greek: πυρρίχιος or πυρρίχη,[1] but often misspelled as πυρρίχειος or πυρήχειος) was the best known war dance of the Greeks. It was probably of Dorian origin and practiced at first solely as a training for war. According to ancient sources, it was a weapon dance.[2]
Homer refers to the Pyrrichios and describes how Achilles danced it around the burning funeral of Patroclus.
The dance was loved in all of Greece and especially by the Spartans, who considered it light war training. This belief led the Spartans to teach the dance to their children while they were still young.
Athenian youth performed the dance in the palaestra as part of training in gymnastics.[4] The dance was also performed in the Panathenaic Games. There were three classes of competitors
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