Pyrrhic Dance, the chief war-dance of the Greeks, of quick, light movement to the music of flutes; was of Cretan or Spartan origin. It was subsequently danced for display by the Athenian youths and by women to entertain company, and in the Roman empire was a favourite item in the public games.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pyrrha * Pyrrho