Athletic
Nudity
Nudity
Greece was not a nudist society, but nudity was considered appropriate exclusively inside of this sort of athletic facility.
As opposed to stephanitic games, rewards in chrematitic games usually involved prizes with this kind of value.
What is economic value?
This fellow was a famous Athenian politician who also found success in Olympic chariot racing.
Who is Alcibiades?
Participation in sport by this social group was an unusual aspect of Spartan athletic training.
Who are women?
This is the traditional date for the first Olympic Games.
What is 776?
Group nude athletics is thought to have contributed to group bonding. Such bonding was important at Sparta because citizens needed to work together and suppress revolts amongst this enslaved people.
Who are the Messenians?
Participation in most Greek sport was limited to those people possessing this "oily trinity" of characteristics.
What is Greek, free/citizen, male?
This famous athlete from Thasos was memorialized in a statue which at one point was convicted of murder.
Who is Theagenes.
Sport at Sparta included an unusual number of this general category of sport, which was not included in the Olympic Games.
What is team sports?
Systems and structures contrived by humans to create and encourage regularities of behaviour are known in some academic circles as these.
What are institutions?
One explanation for athletic nudity that the Greeks put forward was that running without this piece of clothing would make an athlete faster.
What is a loincloth?
Who is Solon?
The most feared and awed athletes from the Ancient Greek world were usually competitors in these events.
What are the heavy events (boxing, wrestling, pankration)?
This was the Greek word for an ancient Athenian gym teacher.
What is a paidotribes?
German sport in the early 20th century usually took the form of this kind of exhibition.
What is the turnfest?
This was an insult levelled at those Greeks who did not work out at the gymnasium enough to achieve the desirable level of tan.
What is white-rumped?
Athletes were eligible to have a statue set up commemorating their achievements at Olympia after this many victories.
What is three?
This famous athlete was apparently very very tall and killed a lion with his own two hands.
Who is Polydamas?
Sport and Music were thought to be good avenues for teaching lessons to young children in Athens amongst interlocutors in this philosophical work.
What is Plato's Republic.
An inscription from a gymnasium at Verroia in northern Greece stipulates that these type of people are prohibited from entering.
Who are (any of the following): slaves, craftspeople, freedmen, drunks, and madmen?
It is likely that the origins of Greek athletic nudity were related to a special costume of nudity associated with this sort of special ritual life event?
What is a coming of age or liminal rite?
This is the Greek word for a victory ode sung to honour a successful Panhellenic victor.
What is epinikian?
An Ancient Greek bull, of the kind eaten by the famous athlete Milo, probably contained about this many calories.
What is 300–400,000.
This image shows young boys from Corinth involved in what kind of athletic training?
What is choral dance.
The Greek word for the ancient Olympic truce is ekechaireia, which literally means this.
What is the holding off of hands?