The Syrtos (Syrtaki) is a slow dance accompanied by lyra and violin or even with Ascomandoura (it is a tradiatonal instrument of Greeks) in the mountain took this name because the dancer's legs dragging the ground without losing their contact with the earth. Historically it is said that a few days before the fall of Constantinople . The Cretans volunteered to fight When the city fell the criticism left they continued dancing on the three towers that the Pasha had taken to exemplify the Turkish soldiers left the Cretans to leave with one of the ships Armed with their banners on delivery judges the few moments of respite from war sang designing principle objection to Byzantine music thus creating and melodies. Years after a captains wedding chieftains asked the lyre play the honored actresses to dance them, so it is said that the first insurance the Syrthos dance and revolutionary expression in the west and east.
