The Phalanx: Pyrrhic Dance
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Andrew Yamato and John Bracken of the Ancient Greek reenactment group “The Phalanx” perform a speculative interpretation of an Ancient Greek “pyrrhic dance” at the “Across The Centuries” timeline event at Ft. Loudon, Pennsylvania in May 2022.
Although they were largely (and often proudly) untrained as soldiers, Greek “hoplite” militiamen are believed to have performed these armed and armored dances as ceremonial displays of martial and athletic prowess.
Drawing inspiration from ancient vase art and 19th century paintings, this dance was choreographed to articulate the basic stages of hoplite combat: pre-battle bravado (provoking arrow bombardment), advance under fire, doratismos (spear fencing), othismos (shield to shield pushing), breakthrough, pursuit, and monomachia (single combat).
(Performed to “Ritual Dance,” by the Petros Tabouris Ensemble).
Imagine hundreds, if not thousands of Greeks facing you doing this dance , frightening !
Too damn true. That armor
Yep! This bravado is breathtaking!
@Slavic Asassin After the macedonians finished them, they marched together with the macedonians against persia and than, there was no persia anymore.
@Slavic Asassin No greek was general in his army? What was Nearchos then? Just to name one of the greek generals of Alexander
@Slavic Asassin Other greek generals of Alexander were Lysimachos and later Eumenes of Kardia, just as examples of course
Absolutely loved it! Always wanted to see someone reenact ancient greek stuff
Can't believe I'm just now seeing this; been searching for an example ever since Christian Cameron's novels
One thing I like about this video is that it is not overly filled with drama or something out of a movie. It just shows the dance of the hoplites. It is not too loud, and there is no epic stuff. Now, if this dance was done with an entire army, it would be epic
It is fake, these new age and simplistic moves have nothing to do with pyrrhic dance. The video is fulfilled with the video-maker's imagination.
Total failure.
Sensational display & superb ancient armour. Love the vibrancy of your shields, paired w/ the equally vibrant aulos, this routine seems imbued w/ the sense of individualism & charisma the Greeks adored.
Especially enjoyed the escalating narrative within each movement. From what I recall, a variety of Olympic competitions involved tasks likely inspired by hoplite combat; specifically the challenge of sprinting while armoured. I wonder whether mercenaries (such as yourselves!) might have been praised for performing w/ your comrades.
This is ABSOLUTELY fantastic!!!!!
Really beautiful.
Stand together Brothers
Marvellous
Let our Chief live. He may be a great Olympic Champion
😢😂
Nice to see you here on the 'Tube, Andrew! Great video!
Thanks so much!
Great! Thank you!
Very nice.
Love the owl
Imagine if 300 was accurate and featured a Pyrrhic dance scene!
Born Warriors
FYI... Look up sera pontic Greek . That's authentic Greek military exercise.
Still Great Warriors
Those 2 Spartans count as 4 actually
And now only the Pontian Greeks people dance the Pyrrichio or Serra dance and the dance Pitsak or Machairia
The pontians dance it without the armor and weapons, and the music melody and instruments are totally different from the ancient one th-cam.com/video/6q4LAMPScYw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1udhk3T7qe9twlhO
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@@Unknown00432 Yeah, culture changes. It has been 3400 years since the Ten Thousand.
For Lakonia
Where is all the other things about hoplites and othismos you've been posting on Facebok
"speculative interpretation" = "stuff we just made up" 😅
Heracles' Himself
Stabbing the soldiers behind innit
Who are these guys?
American hoplite reenactors of The Greek Phalanx. Follow us at thegreekphalanx.org.
SPARTA put up a great fight though didn't She. After saving our ass
Terrible how after serving along side one another Athens chose to attack SPARTA once weakened.
How do you reckon that? Sparta started the Peloponnesian War by invading Attica.
@@ayamato I was just going off this Top Battle dance. However, History is always written by the Victor.
@@thomaslund6013 I see. But re "History is always written by the Victor," there's a big exception: "The History of The Peloponnesian War" was written by the Athenian Thucydides!
@@ayamato True, true.
@@ayamato got to keep match fit somehow. :D
troy
good try! but it was probably danced in big groups and circles
Damn Athenians 😂
This is rediculous, the pyrrhic dance had nothing to do with these simplistic and new age moves.
Pyrrhic dance is about bravery and war skills, therefore, it is nothing like the one you just showed here.
Please leave the Greek heritage to the Hellenes (Greeks) who can feel it, it is our dna and our heritage.
We can feel it in our vains if something is fake, false or untrue. These moves are all os the above.
I love Zeus
nice