Athens, about the early institution of the ephebeia







before its regularization in 335 B.C. Gymnastic exercises and the Pyrrhic dance must have played an important part as a prep for war.74 The Athenian







pyrrhic, or armed dance, was performed nude at the







Panathenaia and included choruses from the Athenian







tribes.75 The custom of the warrior sportsman who participated in armed dances and r