1) Festival in ancient Sparta 2) Greek war dance
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The Gymnopaedia, in ancient Sparta, was a yearly celebration during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of war dancing. The custom was introduced in 668 BC, concurrently with the introduction of naked athletics, oiling the body for exercise so as to highlight its beauty. ==Etymology== Gymnopaedia deriv...
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gymnopedia, gymnopaedia, gymnopedic, gymnopaedic The distinctive epithet (in ancient Greece) of the dances or other exercises performed by naked boys at public festivals. Historically this word applies, says the Century Dictionary (1914), to ancient Greek 'dances and gymnastic exercises performed, as at public festivals, by boys or youths unclothe...
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