Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Designated Place, Hellenistic Period, Foreskin
13 Mar 2019
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Sport and recreation in the ancient world: my ta, dylan skurka, dskurka3@uwo. ca. It often sounds like it could be objective, but it isn"t always: we don"t have a massive body of work to cross check. Inscriptions/papyrus: the most common way of writing things down (papyrus, tombstones, very uncommon, lucky almost to find them. It caught on because they wanted to show off their bodies/genetics: homosexuality was accepted in their society. In the circle of athletics, to be clothed was a weird and unacceptable. Infibulation: to tie up: they would take a string, tie to the foreskin of the penis and fumble it back onto itself, doesn"t seem mandatory, but people did it, may have been there for individuality. It was common for people to bid and buy the oil that was scrapped off of other athletes. If you didn"t have a strigil they would use sponges, dust (of different colours)
