Singing Naked in the Marketplace Was the SpartansOnly.Com of Its Time

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In Sparta marriage was an enforced institution, not only were single men not allowed to attend Sparta's cool naked parties but they also were required to do the following:

“moreover, he imposed certain penalties on unmarried men. They were excluded from the festival of gymnopaedia, in honor of Athene; and the magistrates ordered them during winter to walk naked round the market place, while doing so to sing a song written against themselves”

Plutarch’s Lives vol. 1: Life of Lykurgus Section XIV

In Sparta marriage was an enforced institution, not only were single men not allowed to attend Sparta's cool naked parties but they also were required to do the following: >“moreover, he imposed certain penalties on unmarried men. They were excluded from the festival of [gymnopaedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopaedia), in honor of Athene; and the magistrates ordered them during winter to walk naked round the market place, while doing so to sing a song written against themselves” Plutarch’s Lives vol. 1: Life of Lykurgus Section XIV

Singing Naked in the Marketplace Was the SpartansOnly.Com of Its Time

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