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Pyrrhic dance. Closing ceremony of the Panhellenic Reserve Exercise "MACEDONOMACHUS" Kostas Tirekidis on the Lyre, and Nikos Kalogeridis on the daouli. Pyrrhic is the oldest Greek war dance. The dancers danced holding a shield and spear and wearing helmets. There are three mythical versions of its creation: 1) During the reign of Kronos, before the Titanomachy and while Zeus was still an infant, the Kouretes danced the pyrrhic around him, making a loud noise with their weapons and shields so that the child-killing Kronos would not hear his cries. 2) During the siege of Troy, Achilles, before burning the dead Patroclus, danced the Pyrrhios on the platform of firewood before delivering Patroclus to the funeral pyre (fire - Pyrrhios). 3) Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) under the walls of Troy, danced to this rhythm, out of his joy over the death of Eurypylus (Pyrrhus - Pyrrhios). Whatever the mythical "origin" of the Pyrrhios, what is certain is that it was danced from the Black Sea to Cyprus and Crete, while the Spartans considered it a kind of military training and learned it from young children. We find references to the Pyrrhios in Homer and Xenophon. Nowadays, the modern pyrrhicion is inherited from the Pontians, in a form that perhaps approaches the pyrrhicion without weapons, with men (women were forbidden to dance the pyrrhicion) but instead of the dancers forming a circle, they form a straight line....