Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 2000/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gymnopedies - Off Topic
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:39:22 -0500

I knew the significance of the "gymno" part, but I wasn't sure if "pedi"
meant children or feet - I guessed wrong. Thanks for the information.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:Bilwright@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gymnopedies - Off Topic
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>
> ....probably this is an unnecessary post, but the Greek word
> "gymnos" is the root of our word "gymnasium". The Greeks felt that
> athletics were most pure and most meaningful and most revealing of human
> skill (or lack of it) if performed while naked. Hence the original
> Olympic Games were performed naked.
>
> Thus "gymnopedies" does not directly imply libertine or pedophlia.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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