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File Size: 4420 KB

Print Length: 240 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 081296991X

Publisher: Random House (June 8, 2004)

Publication Date: June 8, 2004

Sold by: Random House LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B000FC1R3M

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Ah, Ancient Greece! Where wise men discussed philosophy and science at dignified academies, where young noblemen came to study and improve themselves...Where citizens in the agora held lively discussions about wisdom with Socrates the gadfly...which celebrated the Olympics every four years with dignity and grace, requiring only that the athletes compete in the nude...Well, I guess that's not a complete picture. This fascinating portrayal of "the REAL Olympics" shows a lot more of the very human nature of those Ancient Greeks. It's going too far to call the Olympics a five-day debauch, but there was that aspect to it. A lot of olive oil was massaged into young athletic bodies, and a lot of wine was guzzled by the spectators, almost all of whom had to stand in the blazing sun (without hats --- it was a rule), frequently falling victim to sunstroke or heat exhaustion while the superb professional athletes raked up all the gold and all the glory. When night fell, and more wine had been guzzled, there was sex aplenty for sale at Olympia, beautiful women and handsome young men both plying their trades. Your hotel? Why, that was a blanket on the grass. Your restaurant? Cart vendors. Your latrine? Well, that would be the dried-up river bed over yonder... Shower facilities and baths? Are you kidding?The 40,000 spectators arrived smelling pretty ripe, and that smell continued growing riper. Add in the fumes from a zillion cook-fires, plus that river bed over yonder...But who cared? This was the OLYMPICS!! The games here had a run of about 1200 years.The remedy for hangover? Make sure you upchuck everything before going to bed! (Would that work??!)In sum, this is a very entertaining portrait of the Ancient Greeks when they weren't posing for marble statues --- it's much more a portrait of the Ancient Greeks we find on ancient drinking cups. And the portrait of professional athletes of staggering wealth being cheered on by people who had a whole lot less wealth --- why, it may even remind some of modern times.

Those people looking to step into the sandals of an ancient spectator at one of the most celebrated sporting events in history could not do better than this book. Where other historians would be satisfied with a purely narrative history, Tony Perrottet takes you a step further and actually gives the reader a run by run account of each day of the festivities, the daily regimen of its athletes and high priests, coaches and spectators, everything from the first day of try-outs to the final closing ceremonies and wild after parties. Interspersed within this run of events the author provides many interesting and humorous anecdotes from the games, which in the classical era was as much a religious festival as it was a sporting event. A relatively light read, but nonetheless very informative and entertaining.

"... there was no reliable water supply at Olympia ... so dehydrated spectators would be collapsing in droves from heatstroke. Nobody bathed for days. The sharp odor of sweat did battle with Olympia's fragrant pine forests and wildflowers, only to be overpowered by the intermittent wafts from the dry riverbeds, which had been turned into open-air latrines. And every minute of the day was a trial with Olympia's incessant plague of flies ... The smoke from thousands of cooking fires created a pall of pollution. Crowd control was enforced by local officials with whips." - from THE NAKED OLYMPICS, on the conditions facing the spectators. Perhaps could also describe the ambience surrounding modern-day after-Christmas sales.With THE NAKED GAMES, author Tony Perrottet repeats what he previously did with Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists, i.e. take the reader back to the good old days. In this volume, Tony describes, based on relatively meager and scattered historical sources, what it was like to attend, either as a spectator or an athlete, the original Greek Olympic Games, which were uninterruptedly staged every four years from 776 B.C. to 394 A.D. That's 1,170 years, a performance run that Broadway productions can only fantasize about. Some rocks don't live that long.My pre-existing knowledge of the Greek games and Olympia being, well, nil, the only errors apparent to me were in an artist's re-creation of the forty-foot high statue of Zeus within his Olympia temple. The drawing of the idol is wildly out of proportion, based on measurements provided in the historical record, to the human figures alongside. Moreover, Tony's text places a scepter in his right hand and a winged statue of Victory in his left while, in the drawing, it's just the opposite. Didn't anyone proof-read?The volume contains thirty-one illustrations, most of which show the contestants' activities as depicted on drinking cups, amphorae, and water jars of the period. Not surprisingly, pretty much all of the subjects are buck naked, which is how they competed and which is consistent with the book's title. I wish I'd had the sunscreen concession.There's also a drawing of what the Sanctuary of Olympia complex may have looked like around 150 B.C. based on extant ruins and archeological evidence. There is, however, no placement of Olympia on a map; it was rather isolated from the rest of Greece. I had to look it up on-line.Finally, there's a scene from the film Ben Hur (1959) that shows the title character racing his 4-horse chariot. Perrottet maintains that the film's race sequence, and action sequences like it in other movies, accurately portrays the chaotic and violent nature of the event as it was staged at the Greek games. Really? I didn't realize Charleton Heston was that old.As a work of popular history, THE NAKED GAMES is almost certainly not the most learned or comprehensive work on the subject. But for anyone with a casual interest in a wide range of topics, this book, assuming Perrottet is reporting the facts with reasonable accuracy, is a congenial and instructive diversion.

I got bored with it but it is a good book especially if you have some special interest in the subject.

This is a terrific book that describes the ancient games and the athletes' training methods. It clears up myths about amateurism in ancient athletes and describes their rigorous lifestyle. I highly recommend this book.

It was a very factual and entertaining description of the original Olympics--

Very interesting book!!! Really enjoying the read !!!

Informative and entertaining. A good guide to the ancient Olympics.

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