Originally posted by TrojanBoy
nice pictures.
they're reminding me to the initiation of the olympic games in old greek. there the athlets had been night every "battletime"
Can you explain more, for us?
Srry. i wanted to say, that they have been naked all the battle-time. My keyboard doesn't take function any more.
Now, the olympic games had been, as we all know, taken place at
Olympia (an ancient greek city near Patra(s)). The first olympic games had been (as most impressive part of all the games) a battle between Zeus (the first of the greek gods) and his son
Heracles (also called Hercules). On the amphoras of the ancient greek you can see a scene of an olympic game:
They had been (some scientists are thinking so) naked all the time of the olympic games. They haven't had the sportswear we've today and another point would be also that they want to show their muscles and that they're working without assistive devices.
Later, in the middleage, the nudity had been frowned up. (Do you know the storie of the pope, which deleted (not he personally, but his workers) by the statues in the vatican city all signs of sexualism (will say the man's little friend) and replaced them later with leathes?)
The olympic games we know today aren't connected (excepted the name) to the ancient greek games, but their source had been GB and also France (after revolution). The initiators had taken the idea for this games by the ancient greeks, but not all their behaviors. I think that, if the nudity would have taken place also in the new olympic games, we wouldn't have such a big problem with it today.
The images are very nice, but in my mind, they are for such a pubblicity compaign. They, in my mind, shouldn't make thinking of the beginning of the olympic games, but they made me thinking about this.
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Originally posted by TrojanBoy
