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- alapoet, on 08/02/2008, -1/+49I think the female gymnasts and skaters should *still* compete in the nude.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+17mixed martial arts ... in the NUDE! there is good nude and bad nude and this would qualify as bad nude. Picturing trying to open a pickle jar only 100 times worse.
- xonkonog, on 08/02/2008, -4/+18why is Christianity such a bummer?
- DeviantDragon, on 08/02/2008, -1/+15Arrhachion is a badass. A dead badass, but a badass indeed.
- dose, on 08/02/2008, -0/+13"In the Ancient Olympics, there were no rounds - boxing was done when a fighter was knocked out cold (if the fight lasted too long, then they each took turn punching each other in the head until one collapsed)."
This would definitely boost the ratings... - tomarocco, on 08/02/2008, -1/+11The men also kept adolescent males for lovers as a standard practice.
- seantubridy, on 08/02/2008, -0/+10I feel hung compared to those illustrations. Made my day.
- cl2yp71c, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9Thanks for the visual?
- dhughes, on 08/02/2008, -0/+8 They can wear penis restraints.
- trakie, on 08/02/2008, -0/+8i love beach volleyball
- browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -2/+9Way to cut and paste from the article there, buddy.
- cl2yp71c, on 08/02/2008, -0/+7Sparta FTW!
They let girls compete in the nude and made the boys watch them....nuff said. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+7MRBABYMAN
- ironeus, on 08/02/2008, -2/+9I didn't know a chef won the first Olympic games; can you imagine Chef Emeril in the 200 m dash today? BAM!
- cl2yp71c, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7Props to them.
I hate this prudish society. - antigravit42, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6Well in a sense they kinda do.
The skimpy/tight outfits don't really leave much for the imagination. - Oddog, on 08/02/2008, -2/+8thx for this article. very interesting ;)
- orangefly, on 08/02/2008, -0/+6frying bacon naked = bad nude....
- browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7'BAM!' in this case being the sound of one of his heart valves blowing.
- quez, on 08/02/2008, -0/+6Could you point out some examples? I'm not challenging you, I'm genuinely curious.
- browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6Those ancient Greeks did love their lube.
- ShadySpace, on 08/02/2008, -3/+8Christianity: The buzzkill that just won't quit.
- tzon, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6Wear a kynodesme. They are quite comfortable I hear.
- nixfu, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4Just imagine the WINTER Olympics nude.... bbbbuuuuuurrrrr..
- virtustempus, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5The one that popped out at me was when the author said maidens were allowed to watch the games, perhaps even to promote their being wooed by the athletes. That's not how courtship or marriage worked at all in ancient Greece. Basically any citizen woman(non-slave and non-prostitute, i.e. "maiden"), would be kept inside the house at all times. Looking outside was sometimes a punishable offense.
When time came for them to be married (at around age 13), they would have no say in the matter--it would make more sense for their father (or the head of the household, sometimes the grandfather) to be impressed by naked athletes than the maidens, since the head of the household got to choose whom the girls were to marry.
Same goes for the boys watching the girls. The cults where women did athletics ("Playing the bear" at Brauron) were, to my knowledge, secretive and didn't let many men watch. They would have been little girls too, not married women.
Upon reviewing the article that was the only discrepancy that I have really studied enough to refute. - langdonalger, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4i dunno, i don't think i'd mind watching a nude gina carano fight.
- faizal5k, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4What about the muscular manly looking female weightlifters?
lol I KEED I KEED! - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -5/+9The ancient Greeks had a tradition of doing things nude.they walked around in the buff in the bedroom and at parties called sympsia*, and they exercised without any clothes.
- krnldmp, on 08/02/2008, -0/+311. There was a time when it wasn't strictly commerical.
- crice, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3Olympic victors often won many, many pots of olive oil (awarded by their hometowns), which was worth its weight in gold back then.
- slurba, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3"The Romans, who conquered Greece, viewed the Olympics as a pagan festival."
It should say "Emperor Theodosius killed the Olympics due to Christians thinking it was evil", which is basically the same thing. Every man and his dog at that time use to kill each other / ***** on other's customs and religion when they didn't like it, and that included the Christians. - browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3Today, we call that kind of behavior "reality television".
- antigravit42, on 06/14/2009, -3/+6"Christianity Killed the Ancient Olympics...until it was revived 1,500 years later in 1896."
- quez, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3In those days, the Greeks considered a smallish penis more aesthetically pleasing than a large one.
Oh, how I long for those days. Not the keeping an adolescent male lover part, but the, uhh...yeah. - cnosal, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3The difference is inserting another group would be slander, but persecution of paganism by Christians is historical fact.
- swiftheart, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2It seems that a culture with a preference for smallish penises would have a thing for adolescent males. :-)
On a serious note, cultures of antiquity were much more fascinated with the ballsack than the penis. For instance, Michelangelo's David might be a bit of an exaggeration in regards to the David's balls.
This makes sense; testicle size may indicate something about virility which is a measure of a man, whereas penis size only is consequential to female pleasure...a concept which wasn't all that important. - SpankyBojangles, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4Naked wrestling -- faithfully re-enacted in Borat.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2The ancient Greeks didn't even seem gay at all!
- Grolsch, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4I think Borat portrayed very well what would wrestling look like in ancient Olympics.
- EvilJelloMan, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4man i cant imagine exercising without clothes. When I wear boxers that are too lose, my balls rub against my leg and it chafes the ***** out of them. I need that ***** squished up and controlled.
- inactive, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2A few sects have actually practiced that. And shockingly they all faded away after about 30-40 years... hmmmmm.
- rabidjester, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2I love symposia!
- inactive, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Those horny spartans.
- nixfu, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2TEA BAG for the win!
- jawagas, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Yay!
- birdcity, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2You should look up Olympic games in Nazi Germany - Hitler created the burning of the torch
- ileftfark, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Fun (?) fact of the day: Gymnasium: From the Greek gymnasion, from gymnazein to exercise naked, from gymnos naked.
Now go impress the ladies! - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Yeah Sparta was a lot less gay than Greece/Athens.
- sock2828, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4Can you imagine him competing naked to?
- inactive, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1What are you talking about, man? I just drove my fine Kia vehicle home to post on my inspiring HP laptop about how wrong you have it. Man, with all this money I'm making from my stressfree Wachovia investment account, I'm just going to laugh at you and drink this tasty Vitamin Water.
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