{"id":30,"date":"2005-01-20T22:06:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T02:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/20\/greeks-offended-by-us-prudishness\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T22:06:50","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T02:06:50","slug":"greeks-offended-by-us-prudishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/20\/greeks-offended-by-us-prudishness\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeks Offended By US Prudishness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A clutch of complaints by U.S. viewers that the
\n Athens Olympics opening ceremony featured lewd nudity has incensed the
\n Games chief, who warned American regulators to back off from policing
\n ancient Greek culture.<\/p>\n

"Far from being indecent, the opening ceremonies were beautiful,
\n enlightening, uplifting and enjoyable," Angelopoulos wrote in a
\n weekend commentary in the Los Angeles Times titled "Since
\n When is Greece’s Culture Obscene?"<\/a><\/p>\n

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He might also have noted that although the original Olympics
\n featured homo-erotic oil wrestling, no-holds-barred gay bath houses, animal sacrifices
\n and myriad
\n luxurious temple cults where drunken orgies with the priestesses was considered
\n religious devotion, in this day and age one is much more likely to
\n find all of these phenomena in
\n Los Angeles than in Athens.<\/em><\/p>\n

article from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

photo from Athens Opening Ceremony by Wolfgang Rattay<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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