Carrying a Torch for the Ancient Olympics: Lamenting the Loss of the Games' Gay Soul
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Posted 06.06.2012
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In 393 C.E. the Christian Emperor Theodosius I put an end to the ancient Olympic Games. The nudity, the joy in physical beauty, the sheer exhilarating mix of the Games were at odds with his appropriation of a new religion and much too redolent of the old.
