Spartan Love – Unisex T-Shirt

According to scholars, the Spartans were the first to eroticize male athleticism. They stripped naked at the gym and anointed their bodies with oils and perfumed unguents when competing in sports.

That is why Ancient Romans referred to homoerotic behaviors as “mos Graecorum” (“Greek custom” or “the way of the Greeks”) which they attributed on too much practicing without clothes.

The drawing that decorates this shirt reproduces “The wrestlers,” a Roman sculpture preserved in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, a copy of the Greek original, now lost, from the third century BC, representing two naked young men engaged in Pankration, a type of fight similar to the current Mixed Martial Arts.