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(hereafter cited as AJA). Additionally see Vermeule, (Greece in the Bronze Age, pp. 92, 101. 102) who locates Mylonas' argument "convincing." 14. Excavations in Cyprus (London, 1900): p. 9 ;M. I. Davies, 'Thoughts on the Oresteia Before Aischylos, Bulletin de correspondance hellnique 93 (1969): 220,223 (quotes) (hereafter cited as BCH). For other interpretations of this landscape see ibid. pp. 214.223. A fragment of Mycenaean chariot krater from Enkomi (c. 1300 B.C.). H. W. Catling and A. Millett, "A study in the Composition Patterns of Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Cyprus," BSA 60 (1965) PI. 58 (2). (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum). Faced with their arms extended (Fig.7). This scene represents a boxing contest possibly at funeral games. Pairs of faced naked athletes that remind us of the classical boxing scenes form the sole topic of a Mycenaean vase 1 (Fig.8). It has been implied that the scene depicts confronted boxers. 5 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Fresh York reveals a procession of chariots and warriors. The warriors are naked, but each bears a helmet, two spears and a sword. accompanying the body to the grave. The existence of a tripod in this krater rather suggests the existence of funeral games. M. Laurent gave examples of tripods on Geometric vases and convincingly implied that they were prizes in boxing competitions. Copenhagen Museum) represents funeral games. On one side there are two naked guys preparing to stab each other with swords." An Argive Geometric 15. Also see Arne Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery: Analysis and Classification (Stockholm, 1941), pp. 437.443-435 who sees in this scene a boxing competition. 16. of Art,"AJA I9 (1915): 389,390. PI. xxiii; S. Benton, "The Development of the Tripod-Lebes, "Annual of the British School of Athens 35 (1934.35): 105, 108, 109; (hereafter mentioned as LISA); http://www.timeflow.ru/wiki/index.php?title=Naturist-Advertising-with-Nudist-Portal-s , "Sur un Vase de Style Gometrique,"BCH 25 (1901): 143-145. 17. The landscape reminds us of the single battle between Aias and Diomedes in the funeral games of Patroclos. This event did not survive into historic Greece and it really is practical to assume that it died out along with the hero of the Geometric period. It is known from literary and archaeological sources that armed combats in the kind of a game were practiced in Mycenaean Greece. Fragments of frescoes from Pylos symbolize duels of men with A Mycenaean Vase from Enkomi (c. 1300 B.C.). H. W. Catling and A. Millett, "A study in the Composition Patterns of Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Cyprus," BSA 60 (1965) PI. 60( 1). (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum). Attic Geometric cup from Athens. 1975) amount 17. (Courtesy of Noyes Press). 222 Source of Nudity in Greek Athletics An Argi've Geometric shard. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archailogischen Instituts, Athenishe Abteilung 17 (1892) fig. 10. (Courtesy of Gebr Mann Verlag GMbH). The Greeks felt so strongly about nudity that it was thought to have a magical Their sportsmen were regarded as protected in some manner by their nudity.21 Simple warriors are sometimes represented bare for either "magic, i.e. apotropaic purposes" or for "psychological shock effect" and "to ward off still in existence among some current cultures. In Fresh Guinea the naked Papuan warrior of today wears a "codpiece" when armed for warfare; these Cod pieces are made of straw painted in red or yellow and are undoubtedly not meant to conceal the manhood; on the contrary they are just as sharply exhibitionistic as the European codpieces of the sixteenth century.23 Marco Polo was 21. Bonfante, Etruscon Apparel, p. 102. 22 See Wilkinson, CIassical Approaches to Modern Issues, pp. 83, 89; Bonfante, Efruscan Dress, p. 102. For references on the "apotropaic" phallus find Walter Burkert, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley, 1979). p. 161, 1x3. 23. Tborkil Vanggaard, Phallos: A Symbol and its History in the Mule World (Fresh York, 1972), p. 166. On the European cod-piece of the sixteenth century the author says: "While the suits of armour lost the slight elegance which the Gothic ones had possessed a new excrescence developed below the breastplate-the cod-piece.