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and given her a light buckler. She danced the Pyrrhic dance with great agility: on which there was great clapping; and the Paphlagonians asked whether the woman also charged with their troops. The others answered, that it was they who drove the king out of their camp. This was the end of that night's entertainment.
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The Paphlagonians were amazed to see all these dances performed by men in arms. At this Mysus, perceiving their astonishment, prevailed on one of the Arcadians, who had a woman dancer, to let him bring her in; which he did accordingly, after he had dressed her in the handsomest manner he was able,
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forces settled their differences. The following is the part in which the Pyrrhic dance is mentioned:
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origin and practiced at first solely as a training for war. According to ancient sources, it was a
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Xenophon (1839). "Book VI Chapter I". In Spelman, Edward; Cooper, Maurice Ashley (eds.).
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Pyrrhic Dance and Female Pyrrhic Dancers, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 1996), p. 3
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From πύρριχος "red", itself from πυρρός "blazing red" (cf. πῦρ "fire") from
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as part of training in gymnastics. The dance was also performed in the
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The Cambridge Series for Schools and Training Colleges: Xenophon,
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The dance was loved in all of Greece and especially by the
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Index


Ancient Greek
war dance
Dorian
weapon dance
Plato
Leges
aulos
Xenophon
Anabasis
Kotyora
Paphalagonian
Homer
Achilles
Patroclus
Spartans
palaestra
Panathenaic Games
Korybantes
Pyrrichos
Serra (dance)
Proto-Greek
Proto-Indo-European
R. S. P. Beekes
Pyrrhic Dance and Female Pyrrhic Dancers, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 1996), p. 3
The Anabasis, volume I


Music and Image in Classical Athens
Cambridge University Press

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