sex; 5) for apotropaic reasons, to turn away the effects







of magic, sorcery, the evil eye, and hostile spirits. We







shall see that one or more of these concerns can







also describe what nudity once meant for the Greeks-and how it changed.2







Though it doesn't serve as a protection against the







weather (1), nakedness, like clothes or armour, was







used to recognize social groups (2), in li