April 3rd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Topless Bull Leaping
Sure. Yeah. Why not? I’d pay a drachma on a hot day to sit in the shade and watch pretty topless girls play leapfrog with pissed-off bulls. I mean, as long as the girls were good at it; I wouldn’t really want to see anybody get hurt. And if this was all just the warm-up to some fancypants shithead coming out with a sword to do some bull-murdering, then, no:
Artwork is from the cover of the January 1952 Fate magazine, advertising a story headlined The Bull Leapers of Crete. I blogged a chunk of this art ten years ago from a modern source, perhaps a CD cover, which had repurposed it without attribution.
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Bull leaping was a thing in ancient Crete.
Also, Cretan women then went topless.
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