Ancient Greece Vs Modern-day Olympics

[circusslaughter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5N4V2y4dnY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ancient>Modern plus ancient greece was tolerant of homosexuality unlike sochi, bonus points.

 

[Scotteq]

Upside - Ancient Olympians competed in the nude


Deal Breaking Downside - Women weren't allowed to compete...

 

[circusslaughter]

Upside - Ancient Olympians competed in the nude


Deal Breaking Downside - Women weren't allowed to compete...

Least the ancients liked gay people...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I could be wrong but didn't Olympic era Greeks believe that sex for pleasure was supposed to be with boys and sex for children was to be with wives?
No disrespect intended for modern day Greeks.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

No female athletes in the original Olympic games though...

 

[mizzou]

Tolerant? I believe they basically raped young boys too. I would not have wanted to see a old man circle jerk in a stadium that smells like balls, watching two men mount each other.

 

[tynopik]

No female athletes in the original Olympic games though...

But there was still one event they could win, even without being allowed in the games.

 

[mrkun]

My understanding is that Greek pederastic relationships typically did not include full-on intercourse.

 

[Triumph]

modern russian olympic coverage. why did these jokers get the olympics again? i mean look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXKLjtRvfA

 

[IronWing]

Modern snowboarders pawn the pants off the ancient Greeks.

 

[circusslaughter]

They beat you s#¡+less though if you cheated. WIN!

Sochi sucks.

 

[oynaz]

I could be wrong but didn't Olympic era Greeks believe that sex for pleasure was supposed to be with boys and sex for children was to be with wives?
No disrespect intended for modern day Greeks.

That is a myth. A long time since high school, but I believe this myth stems from an ancient Greek sarcastic comedy.

 

[DigDog]

ikr? you're not even allowed to kill people anymore during the pankration. what kind of bs is that.

 

[IAteYourMother]

I could be wrong but didn't Olympic era Greeks believe that sex for pleasure was supposed to be with boys and sex for children was to be with wives?
No disrespect intended for modern day Greeks.

I suspect that even ancient Greeks found sex with women to be very pleasurable

 

[bhagan]

Tolerant? Bar Bar Bar Bar

 

[manimal]

ikr? you're not even allowed to kill people anymore during the pankration. what kind of bs is that.

when fighting bas rutten the possibility of dying is very real.


Panktration is no joke. It actually sowed the seeds for martial arts in india then asia. Ya thats right. The greeks led by alexander conquered india and combined pankration into vajra fist an early martial art from india that Damo possibly took to shaolin.

 

[postmortemIA]

Pics or it didn't happen