not effected all at once; and it revealed one or more scenarios distinct to Greece.8' Nudity current

https://press-relizy.ru/redirect?url=https://picsnudism.com/topic/tpc-best-young-nudist-pics.php . No longer does it mean susceptibility; it means, on the contrary, the preparedness to stand up

and fight even though one knew one was vulnerable. It

has to do with military valor which demands risking

one's life, being totally exposed. The girls were kept

covered because it meant they were shielded, not exposed to risk. The relation of this manly nudity to

the nudity of the gods is also vital: the gods could be

nude because they relied on themselves.

Writers of the Classical period eventually looked

back at the custom and offered rationalizing explanations for an association whose significance had changed

from religious and rite to civic.82 The Greeks did

tifying indications of the sportsman. A storyline features the sloth of the

Individuals of Sybaris,who saw the athletesof Krotondiggingup

the palaestra and wonderedwhy they didn't hire workers

to performsuch menial tasks (Poliakoff[supran. 54] 12-13,

with fig. 13).

80 Aeschin. In Tim. 138; mentioned in M. there ,

"Slaveryand

Homosexuality,"Phoenix 38 (1984) 319, who believes slaves

were truly banned from entering the palaestra. For a

similar law in Crete, view Arist. Pol.

Gymnasticsand war are mentionedtogether additionally as something normallyforeignto girls:supra, text and n. 85.

Murray 1980 (supra n. 72) 193. Similar transformation,

from spiritual to civil, took place, e.g., in the theatre, or in

the polis, with the usage of the lot.

not entirely understandthe source or the development

of their nudity. Yet they had to describe it, as a peculiarity that illustrated clearly and supported in actions the difference between themselves

Intensely aware. We have seen that they attributedthe

origin of fit nudity to the 15th Olympiad, in the

last decades of the eighth century B.C. The earliest

But the custom spread slowly, and after, into

everydaylife. Such a gradualdevelopmentcan clarify

the statement of Thucydides (1.6)-repeated later by

Plato (Resp. 5.452a-e)-that fit nudity had become universal in Greece "shortlybefore his time."

These authors were referringto the normalizationof

nudity in real life, to its civil value,not to its

earliest appearancein religious ritual and artwork.

Thucydides saw the custom of exercising in the

nude in the context of democracy,which had trium:i?? I i ?iiiiii:ii-

phantly been validated at Athens shortly before his

time, after the Persian Wars. The launch of athletic nudity into the everyday life of the gymnasium

and palaestra was part of a "modern" way of life,

freer, simpler, more democratic, based on Thucydides.

himself in readiness for military service. A Greek soldier must be in shape: he must be lean and muscular,

not portly and prosperous.

except the

Greeks-who announced their status and wealth by

wearing lavish garments that gave an impression

of sophistication and authority."83

While Thucydides explains Greek nudity in the

Circumstance of democracy, Plato describes it as an effect of

the logical, reasonable way of thinking of which the

Greeks were so proud.84 In a passage in which he obviously has the Spartan model in head, Plato pictures

the scenario that would appear if women were to have

If, then, we use the girls for the same things as the

men, they must also be educated the same things. Now

music and gymnasticwere givento the guys. These two

arts, and what's to do with war, must be assignedto

ways. Maybe,comparedto what is habitual,many of

the things now being said would seem ridiculousif they

the girls exercising nude with the men in the palaestras, not only the young ones, but even the elderly

ones, also, like the old men in the gymnasium who,

when they're wrinkledand not pleasantto the eye, all

would appear ridiculousin the presentstate of things. Well, since we've began to speak, we mustn't be

afraid of all the jokes-of whatever kind-the wits

might make if such a change took place in gymnastic,

in music, and not the least, in the bearingof arms and

the riding of horses. But since we've started to talk,

tiated society like that of early Greece attention must be

paid to a broad assortment of evidence, from myths and philosophic utopias to anecdotes on the physical appearance,

movements,or dress associatedwith a particularstatus or

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