G-string Clad Gladiator Found

[Viggen]

Divers exploring a river near a former Roman Empire fort and settlement in Britain have found a piece of pottery that depicts the backside of a rather buff gladiator wielding a whip and wearing nothing but a G-string, according to British researchers.

 

full article at Discovery

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

That's a bit scary don't ya think.

[Lost_Warrior]

That....would hurt. Seriously, not a good thing to fight in.

[Ursus]

I suppose this help explains why gladiators were so popular with bored, upper class Roman women.

[Pertinax]

im prepared to forgo sex appeal for full segmental armour and a shield

[Tobias]

But you can see the effects it may have; it would take a battle-hardened campaigner not to be repulsed by such tactics

[Andrew Dalby]

If anyone wants to know the Greek for a g-string, incidentally, I'll post it here tomorrow. But can anyone tell me the Latin?

[Primus Pilus]

If anyone wants to know the Greek for a g-string, incidentally, I'll post it here tomorrow. But can anyone tell me the Latin?

 

First.. we need to know what the 'G' is... G-String Ask Yahoo. But since it still seems undefined, allow me to be silly...

 

C-funiculus

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

My dictionary gives lorus and habena habena. They don't necessarily mean g-string but a thong, rather a leather strap or whip.

Underwear is intulus.

[Andrew Dalby]

My dictionary gives lorus and habena habena. They don't necessarily mean g-string but a thong, rather a leather strap or whip.

Underwear is intulus.

 

Thank you, FVC. I hadn't ever noticed that intulus. The Greek is diaz

[Ursus]

Incidentally, the modern Greek for a thong is kouradokoft

[phil25]

 

Incidentally, the modern Greek for a thong is kouradokoft

[Pertinax]

May I add ,if wearing a long garment of quality weave ( the robust Kilt, the elegant Hakama) a Gentleman often feels quite sufficiently warm in his nether regions to forgoe undies -they are most "constrictive", as a Toga is an even heftier item than a pair of Hakama ,I suggest comfort is also a factor!

 

Try a kilt, I urge you, cast aside your doubts-comfortable,capacious and snug.

[Andrew Dalby]

The Greek is diaz

[Pantagathus]

(I'm replying to myself here) I first noted the words, I might add, when researching for a paper that I wrote a few years ago on the dress of entertainers and prostitutes. I noted that, whenever there happens to be evidence on the subject, the evidence is that entertainers didn't appear nude on a public stage (with the sole exception, once a year, of the Roman festival Floralia). For example, in Procopius's /Secret History/ (ch. 9), we read about all the exciting things that Theodora did before she married Justinian, and about the one thing she didn't quite do, which was to strip naked on stage.

 

Andrew,

 

What about during the Cordax one might encounter in Gades? Or if one where around the Empire to witness the d

Edited December 19, 2005 by Pantagathus