Video - Shocking Secrets of Ancient Greece

dirty facts about ancient Greece you didn't know people wiped themselves with stones like the Romans the Greeks would sometimes clean themselves with a sponge attached to a stick but not every Greek was so lucky more often the Greeks would clean themselves with stones athletes sold their sweat before competing Greek athletes would take off all their clothes and cover themselves in oil that was how they performed whether they were running or grappling with another man Greek athletes would do it naked afterward they would sell sweat as medicine people would rub the sweat of athletes on their skin they believed that it calmed aches and pains which it probably didn't do particularly well slaves had to wear chastity belts Greek slaves would often have to endure something called infibulation that meant that a metal ring would be wrapped around their genitals it would seal them shut tightly enough that even getting excited would be painful and it could only be taken off with a key