School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . imeticdance : thus we read of its being danced bywomen to entertain a company. It wasalso performed at Athens at the greaterand lesser Panathenaea by ephebi, whowere called Pyrrhichlsts [Trv^pixKTrai) andp 4 320 SALTATIO. were trained at the expense of the the mountainous parts of Thessaly andIMacedon dances are performed at the pre-sent day by men armed with muskets andswords. The following cut represents three Pyr-rhichists, two of whom with shield andsword are engaged in the dance, while thethird is standing with a sword. Abovet
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . imeticdance : thus we read of its being danced bywomen to entertain a company. It wasalso performed at Athens at the greaterand lesser Panathenaea by ephebi, whowere called Pyrrhichlsts [Trv^pixKTrai) andp 4 320 SALTATIO. were trained at the expense of the the mountainous parts of Thessaly andIMacedon dances are performed at the pre-sent day by men armed with muskets andswords. The following cut represents three Pyr-rhichists, two of whom with shield andsword are engaged in the dance, while thethird is standing with a sword. Abovethem is a female balancing herself on thehead of one, and apparently in the act ofperformia,<5 a somerset; she no doubt istaking part in the dance, and performing avery artistic kind of tumbling (^KuSiaTrjais),for the Greek performances of this kindsurpass any thing we can imagine inmodern times. Her danger is increased bythe person below, who holds a sword point-ing towards her. A female spectator sittinglooks on, astonished at the PTBRHIO DANCE. The Pyrrhic dance was introduced Inthe public games at Rome by JuliusCaesar, when it was danced by the childrenof the leading men in Asia and Bithynia. There were other dances, besides thePyrrhic, in which the performers had arms,but these seem to have been entirely mi-metic, and not practised with any view totraining for war. Such was the Carpaea(^Kapiraia) peculiar to the Aenianians andMagnetes, and described by Xenophon inthe Anabasis, Such dances were fre- SALTATIO. quently performed at banquets for the en-tertainment of the guests: where also thetumblers (^KvSiaTrjpes) were often intro-duced, who in the course of their danceflung themselves on their head and alightedagain upon their feet. These tumblerswere also accustomed to make their somer-sets over knives and swords, which wascalled Kv§i(TTat/ els fMaxaipas. We learnfrom Tacitus that the German youths alsoused to dance among swords and spearspointed at them.
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