Today’s olympics are vastly different to those that began in ancient greece So what was it like attending those ancient games? While male nude athletes as young as 12 participated in the ancient greek olympics, given the religious nature of the games, bond says, sexual activity or sexualisation of athletes was strictly. To revive the spirit and essence of the games, historians proposed looking to the past—to the very beginnings of the olympics in ancient greece It was there, in olympia in 776 bce, that the first recorded olympic games took place, with athletes competing in the nude. The olympics may not be fully nude anymore, but that doesn't mean that our gaze upon the thousands of athletic bodies from around the globe doesn't still have the ability to change the minds of.
If the modern olympic games ran true to the strict customs of ancient greece, they might well today have been called the “naked games” From the early 8th century bc, olympic athletes competed in the nude.
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