tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790672.post109077416159781572..comments2023-10-06T11:12:33.680+01:00Comments on Robin the Robin at the London 2012 Olympic Games Blog: Historian writes with point about private partsKithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02616508598800436444noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790672.post-101141975193792582010-11-24T09:32:21.479+00:002010-11-24T09:32:21.479+00:00In principle, a good happen, support the views of ...In principle, a good happen, support the views of the authorcialishttp://www.agir-galiza.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790672.post-1090801694619592572004-07-26T01:28:00.000+01:002004-07-26T01:28:00.000+01:00-
HERE'S THE MYSTERY VOICE: "A DOG LEASH, A DOG LE...-<br />HERE'S THE MYSTERY VOICE: "A DOG LEASH, A DOG LEASH."<br />Naturally Her Majesty's BBC Horizon didn't dare show athletic dangly bits. In the end the putative Olympic athlete Dr Stephen Instone may have been naked, but failed to maximise his aerodynamics by wearing a kynodesme. <br />-<br />As keen-eyed readers of this blog will have read under your post "Naked Olympic Action":<br />The kynodesme (literally a "dog leash") was a thin leather thong wound around the akroposthion (the extremity of the foreskin) that pulled the penis upward and was tied in a bow, tied around the waist, or secured by some other means.<br />Vase paintings and statues frequently portray nude athletes wearing the kynodesme (*see link below). One of the most informative iconographic representations is found on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater painted by Euphronios, dating from 520–510 B.C.E. which shows a young athlete in the process of grasping the lips of his akroposthion with the fingers of his left hand and pulling the prepuce taut while his right hand is poised ready to loop the kynodesme around the neck of the akroposthion.<br />-<br />ILLUSTRATED POT: http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/hodges16.jpg<br />* A perfect illustration of the kynodesme tied in a bow can be seen in a panathenaic amphora, attributed to the Triptolemos painter, dating from about 480 B.C.E.: Munich 2314, Antikensammlungen; Beazley, ARV (n. 3), 1: 362, no. 14; illustrated in Reinhard Lullies, ed., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland. München Museum antiken Kleinkunst 4 (Munich: Beck, 1956), plate 197.<br />[Extracted from: Frederick M. Hodges. The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 75, no. 3 (Fall 2001): pp. 375-405.] <br /><br />Yrs - A Historian With An Eye for Detail.<br />-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com