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an investigation an arduous endeavor. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate
that nudity in Greek athletics had its origins in ancient Greece and was
was at the same time his training for war. The distinction between warriorathlete and sportsman is that both were nude but the former wore in specific events
some parts of his panoply which he lost as time went on.
In 520 B.C. the armed race (Fig. 1) was introduced at Olympia which can
Partially be explained as a reminiscence of the warrior-athlete. The competitions
were naked except for a helmet and greaves, and taken a shield. It's possible
that this kind of race was practiced in some local competitions before its
Intro into the Olympic program. Similar races were held at Nemea and
according to Philostratos were of great antiquity.2
In Athens an attempt had been made at the close of the sixth century to
This is evident from a small
Amount of black figured Athenian vases (Figs, 2,3) that depict athletes wearing
loincloths. follow failed, and nudity again became the vogue
in athletics. https://s3.amazonaws.com/a-promo/nudist-porn-video.html is possible that this is what Thucydides and Plato had in mind
when they wrote the launch of nudity in the games had taken place
Only before their own time. The small number of these vases (520-500 B.C.)
* I 'm grateful for the useful criticism and comments of anonymous reviewers of this Journal.
1.
162, 163. These studies offer an
Commendable help toward understanding a phenomenon within a higher civilization. When, nevertheless, one strives to locate
the origin of the difficulty, which is lost in the dark mists of ancient time he cannot use the same reasoning (selfcontrol, health and attractiveness arguments) to describe it. If one does so he must be prepared to admit that all races of the
world started their existence on earth at the underparts of the the scale with the exclusion of the Greeks. But the Greeks,
like all other human races, commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and worked their way up from
savagery to civilization and true kept some survivals of that old condition. This paper attempts to clarify the
condition of the human race, its psychological nature and reasoning, its mental and moral powers, and its protracted
struggle against fear.
2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/a-promo/nice-ass-nudism.html . For Philostratos as an incorrect source see E. L. Bowie, "Greeks and Their Past in
the Second Sophistic," Past and Present 46 (1970): 17. For more on the armed-race see Aristophanes Birds 291;
8, 24.



Red-figure Attic Vase. E. Norman Gardiner, "Notes on the Greek Foot Race," JHS 23
(1903) amount 14. (Courtesy of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies).
Sport.3 This wasn't an effort to "reintroduce" but rather to introduce
loincloths in the games because prior to these vase renderings there's
nothing in Greek art to suggest the existence of loincloths in sports. The
alleged change from loincloths to nudity isn't illustrated in any Greek artwork.
Thucydides wrote the Spartans "were the first to bare their bodies and,
after stripping openly, to anoint themselves with oil when they engaged in
athletic exercise." Dionysios of Halicarnassos believed that "The first guy who
Thucydides' statement?" See E. https://s3.amazonaws.com/a-promo/family-nudity-on-cam.html , Sport of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1930), p. 191
(hereafter mentioned as AAW). On loincloths see, e.g., J. C. Mann, "Gymnazo in Thucydides 1.6.5-6," Ancient
"While the representations of athletes on vases had generally depicted them
Nude, it may be that an attempt to reintroduce loincloths had been made in Greece before Thucydides' time (as
suggested by E. N. Gardiner [AAW] advertisement fig. 163 .)". James Arieti, "Nudity in Greek Sport," [431 11.31
said: "E. Norman Gardiner [AAW, p, 191] proposes, on the foundation of a vase belonging to the ending of the sixth century
this time. But Gardiner is himself very unsure on this point, lifting it just as a question, and there's no actual
Signs the loincloth was re introduced." Both Mann's and Arieti's statements are inaccurate since Gardiner