Delphi - where men assembled in the nude to exercise and fight

in the locker room athletes stripped and rubbed their bodies with olive oil and dust, which functioned as both a natural sunscreen and an enhancer of muscular male beauty. As at all the athletic festivals, they'd compete in the buff. (This was also true at public gymnasiums throughout the empire, where men assembled in the nude to exercise; the word gymnasium comes from the Greek word for naked. Copyright "+you" original mix