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The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games - Tony Perrottet [epub]

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  Published 2004
  
 
*What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?
  
  *With the summer Olympics’ return to
Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan
Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the
event day by day to re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle.
  
  Using firsthand reports and
little-known sources—including an actual Handbook for a Sports Coach used by the Greeks—The Naked Olympics
creates a vivid picture of an extravaganza performed before as many as forty thousand people, featuring contests as
timeless as the javelin throw and as exotic as the chariot race.
  
  Peeling away the layers of myth,
Perrottet lays bare the ancient sporting experience—including the round-the-clock bacchanal inside the tents of
the Olympic Village, the all-male nude workouts under the statue of Eros, and history’s first corruption scandals
involving athletes. Featuring sometimes scandalous cameos by sports enthusiasts Plato, Socrates, and Herodotus, The
Naked Olympics offers essential insight into today’s Games and an unforgettable guide to the world’s first
and most influential athletic festival.
  
  "Just in time for the modern Olympic games to return to Greece
this summer for the first time in more than a century, Tony Perrottet offers up a diverting primer on the Olympics of
the ancient kind….Well researched; his sources are as solid as sources come. It's also well writen….Perhaps
no book of the season will show us so briefly and entertainingly just how complete is our inheritance from the Greeks,
vulgarity and all."
  --The Washington Post
  
  From the Trade Paperback edition.
  
  **
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
  Combining a wealth of vivid details with a knack for narrative pacing
and subtle humor, Perrottet (Pagan Holiday) renders a striking portrayal of the Greek Olympics and their role in the
ancient world. While our modern games certainly pay homage to the Greek festival that was held uninterrupted for more
than 1,200 years, the book's title refers to the most pronounced difference between the two: Ancient athletes competed
in the nude, adorned only with olive oil. While Perrottet also outlines events ranging from the merciless chariot races
to the pankration—a sort of early predecessor of ultimate fighting in which strangulation was seen as the surest
means of attaining victory—he also puts the games in their heavy religious context and gives readers a strong
sense of what they were like from a spectator's point of view. That they were cramped, hot and dizzyingly unsanitary
apparently did little to dissuade throngs of people from the often treacherous journey to Olympia to catch glimpses of
their heroes. And their experiences provided by Perrottet are what separate this book from staid history. His goal, he
writes at the outset, is "to create the ancient games in their sprawling, human entirety," so readers are treated not
only to a thorough picture of the games' proceedings but also to glimpses of the shameless bacchanalia, numerous (and
often lascivious) entertainments and even corruption that accompanied them. It's an entertaining, edifying account that
puts a human face on one of humanity's most remarkable spectacles. 
  
  From The New Yorker
  
 
This lively account of the classical Olympics portrays them as "the Woodstock of antiquity," and claims that the Games,
while taken seriously, were also where Greeks gathered for a five-day debauch. A prostitute could earn a year's wages in
the course of the tournament, Thessalonian peddlers sold love potions made from horse's sweat and minced lizard, and
pentathletes competed to the accompaniment of flutes, perhaps the ancient equivalent of stadium rock. The festival
offered beauty pageants and Homer-recitation contests, numerologists and fire-swallowers, and such culinary delicacies
as roasted sow's womb. Athletic events also fuelled a thriving pickup scene: a message etched into the wall of a stadium
at Nemea reads, "Look up Moschos in Philippi—he's cute." 
  Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker 						

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