undertook to strip and ran nude at Olympia, at the fifteenth Olympiad, was Acanthus the Lacedaemonian.'14 There's a rival tradition told by Pausanias about Orsippos of Megara, "who won a foot race at Olympia running naked at a time when sportsmen used to wear There is a Hellenistic epitaph about Orsippos that was inscribed on the sportsman's grave in Megara saying that he was