Sources deal with fundamental characteristics of their cultures

typically, Roman tradition views continuity, Greek historians pressure innovation. The result is schematic, but
I hope, helpful.
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refers to total nudity. In Classical times, a man was
not gymnos if he wore a perizoma.
covered by armour, exposed (Thuc. 3.23, 5.10.71; Xen.
Hell. 4.4.12); and "light armed," as opposed to the
heavy-armed hoplite.
Pyth. 11.49) was the race run without armor, in contrast to the hoplitodromos.
usage, however, was expressly "exercising in the
nude."22 The word had become something new, just as
the Greeks had made something new of the ancient so-


ARCHAIC PERIOD

In Homer's poems, of around 800 B.C., nakedness
Means shame, exposure, departure, and dishonor.
The naked body of the hero must be rescued. Thersites is threatened with being stripped and run nude
Odysseus covers himself with


leaves before Nausicaa.23 The latter case, of
Class, may be because of the particular circumstances. The
hero is meeting a young, unmarried woman for the
first time, and it would scarcely be suitable for him
to appear before her entirely nude. Homer presents us, it appears, as so often, with the old and the
Fresh, the traditional and the earliest case of what
A crucial passage seems to exemplify such a coexistence. In the 22nd book of the Iliad, Priam and Hecuba
in turn effort-in vain-to dissuade Hector from
going to battle and to certain death. Both appeal to his
compassion, and reverence, by facing him with the spectacle of their nakedness. The sight of one's parents' nakedness is wonderful.24 Priam paints a picture of his
own departure and abasement. An old man's passing is
Awful: "When an old man is dead and down, and the
dogs mutilate the grey head and the gray beard and the
parts that are shameful (albi^), this, for all gloomy mortality is the sight most pitiful" (II. 22.74-76). Immediately
after this, Hecuba shows her breast and holds it outside
This pitiable significance refers to the traditional sense of nakedness.
What' nudism young video is what Priam contrasts with the
grisly, shameful, ugly passing of an old man: the attractiveness
"For a young man
all is decorous when he is cut down in battle and snapped

all that shows about him is beautiful... " (II.
22.71-73). The graphic is startling at such an early
date. It was intelligibly famous. Echoes of the
passage sounded down the centuries, among them
Tyrtaios's well-known poem, with its contrast of ugly
and beautiful.
For this is black, for an old man fallen in battle
One of the front line fighters to lie before the young
This vision is shameful for the eyes to beholdand reprehensible. But in young nudism girls among young men all these
things are proper as long as he beams in the bloom of
lovely youth manhood. They're admirablefor guys to
see and wonderfully attractivefor women while he is
alive-and he seems additionally honest and beautiful
Dropped in the front line.25
There isn't any hint of any difference between Greeks
and barbarians in Homer in terms of language, faith (the Trojans' sacrifice at the temple of Athena),
In the athletic competitions, the
heroes "gird their loins" to prepare for the wrestling
match. Ancient writers assumed this meant that they
Recently others have suggested
that they were participated in belt-wrestling, understood from
the ancient Near East, where naked man bodies wearing thick belts were common in early or protohistoric
times.

cover their genitals. Complete nudity for men could signify service to the god, a ritual "costume."
The naked woman, always revealed in front view, was
a very common motif that could have different significance at different times. In Near Eastern art goddesses
were so signified, primary among them Ishtar
(Astarte), whose powerful, naked image was broadly
Dispersed, and powerful in many places and spans.28 The most frequent connotation of female nudity
in historical times seems to have been service rendered
in the temple.29 For men, yet, in the ancient
Near East and elsewhere it was a signal of defeat. As in
the Old Testament, nakedness signifies poverty,
shame, slavery, humiliation.30
Greek prehistory offers fewer examples of entire
nudity. Energetic younger guys and heroes were represented in artwork wearing the perizoma or short pants31
throughout the Aegean and the whole Mediterranean,
in contrast to older men, dressed in long chitons and