customs
The Gymnasium and Athletic Nudity
gymnasion
The Greek civic institution where free males trained, exercised naked, and were educated — combining athletics, schooling, and a key venue of male social life.
Where this idea shows up
13 Greek sourcesWhere to read it
- Cyropaedia354 BCEXenophon· Athens
- Xenophon· Athens
- Quaestiones Convivales120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Quaestiones Romanae120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Deipnosophistae230 CEAthenaeus of Naucratis· Naucratis