The widely spread legs indicates a position of support of the upper body. ... The emphasis is placed on the male physique and his fertility. ... Her body is oversized and disproportional to the statuette's size. ... The body of the athlete seems to be at an oblique angle. ... Although the piece is not depicted realistically or ideally, its shape serves the intended purpose; that is, to create a figure of a healthy male, able male....

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So sculptures and paintings of humans were ideal, with magnificent complexions and lean bodies. ... they showed the human realistically, with wrinkles and aged faces and bodies, in decrepit positions. ... In the case of Hermaphrodite, or Hermaphroditus - a creature that was partly male and partly female. One legend has him being a handsome male, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. ... This model is quite three-dimensional, and the artist has paid great attention to the overlapping of the cloth onto the figures body, allowing it to protrude the body and contour it's shape. ...

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These similarities both involve the profile and the proportion of the male and female Greek kouroi and korai and the Egyptian male and female statues during this period. ... Unfortunately, although her left arm is broken away above the elbow, it does appear drawn slightly forward and away from the body. ... Body proportions are also similar. ... Such profile traits as depths, widths, heights, and distances of the chest, waist buttocks, shoulders, and hips to other body parts were analyzed carefully. ... They employed the basic unit of the foot to shape parts the human body. ...

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A Kouros is a Greek statue of a young male. ... His arms are tightly by his sides with holes in between his sides, but his fists are closed and connected to the body. ... They would cut away all of the stone away from the body and introduced variations in the look of a figure from statue to statue. ... In Egyptian sculpture, male figures were always at least partially clothed, wearing articles associated with their status, such as the headdresses, beaded pectorals, and kilts that identified kinds. ...

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The Greeks were the first to glamorize the perfection of the human body during the archaic period. Using balance and proportion they sculpted what they considered to be the perfect male and female forms. They called the male the Kouros. He was considered to represent Apollo (a Greek God) or the perfect male athlete. ... What the Greeks considered to be ideal body types have influenced our own views. ...

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In the play, she is a strong willed, determined woman who chose to stand up for her beliefs and whom challenges the most powerful man in this male dominated society. ... After deliberate orders to leave Antigone's brother Polynices" dead body to rot for the wild beasts to feed on, she went on to give her brother a proper burial. ... Her rebellion against the male theocracy became all the more pressing because of her gender. ... Ismene reminds her sister that their gender makes them vulnerable, and without any other recourse but to submit to the demands of the more dominant males. ... ...

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This assembly of all male members was authorized to pass the new laws and administer the foreign and financial affairs. ... All the members of this assembly were males over the age of eighteen, who made all the final decisions on war and laws about foreign policies. ... It was a group of 300 male members, over the age of sixty. ... In the 2nd century B.C, the senate became the effective governing body in Rome. ... No body is sure about when the Roman Empire had come to an end, but it is better to say that Roman Empire was radically transformed over the centuries between the time of pagan Caesa...

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Only Spartan males over the age of 30 could be a part of the assembly by shouting whether they agree or disagree with the councils proposals which may have caused inaccurate results. ... Lastly in Spartan society, only Spartan males over the age of 30 were allowed to vote by shouting their vote to the assembly and the loudest votes would be discussed. ... Males were taught many things such as reading, writing, mathematics, music, philosophy etc. ... Spartans evolved into a body of government, which deprived them from luxuries such as various types of food, luxurious or scandalous clothing, and...

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-Aristotle Democracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole body of citizens, under procedures of majority rule. ... The founders of democracy in Athens exercised decisions through a direct democracy in which all male citizens were allowed to have direct influence on the decisions. ... Athenian democracy functioned within the limits of an exclusive relationship and freedom but political rights were reserved for the male citizen. ... Aristotle proves the difference between old forms of government and the new democracy in his writing in Politics.(127...

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A symposium is organized by a host and is for his male guests, which may also include female entertainers. ... The most important duties for a city woman were to bear children, preferably male, and to run the household. ... According to the Homeric belief, when a person died, his or her vital breath or psyche left the body to enter the palace of Hades, king of the dead. ...

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The Council of Elders, a group of twenty-eight male citizens over the age of sixty acted as a supreme court and proposed laws to The Assembly. ... All male citizens between the ages of 20 and 60 were required to serve in the army and ate and slept at an army barracks. ... The majority of male citizens were farmers, merchants, and artisans who worked in the mornings, and were free to do what they wished in the afternoons. ... Like the Spartans, the Athenians also strived to achieve a beautiful body. Male citizens spent much leisure time in the gymnasium, and athletics were part of th...

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The Spartan citizen body were a professional soldiery, bred from childhood for two qualities, military skills and absolute obedience, free from all other vocational interests and activities". ... The Athenian governmental structure was made up of Ecclesia a tribal unit- popular assembly comprised of all adult Athenian males and had the right to speak in debates, Council of 500- group chosen by lot and paid for service, Strategoi- 10 generals one from each tribe can be re-elected indefinitely, People's Court- judicial body selected by lot and paid and handled most trials instead of just ...

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The body form is perfectly proportional. The muscular form of the human body is flawless with nothing out of place. The male form moving in space is also spectacular. The intersecting arches of his body dissect each other at a perfect angle. The twisting of the abdominal and turning of the body is extraordinary. ...

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The body form is perfectly proportional. The muscular form of the human body is flawless with nothing out of place. The male form moving in space is also spectacular. The intersecting arches of his body dissect each other at a perfect angle. The twisting of the abdominal and turning of the body is extraordinary. ...

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Living in ancient Greece, as a woman, life would be very restrictive. Out of the Sparta, Athens, and Corinth, life as a female would be best lived in Sparta. It would be the most appealing because they had the most rights, and weren't very limited on things they could do. Within this essay I will ex...

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Minoan frescoes painted with leaping acrobatic males and females over bulls are reminiscent of American rodeo stars. ... Earlier sacred sites to goddesses appear to be replaced by male gods like Zeus and Apollo, although the Mycenaean's continued to worship the Mountain Mother at sanctuaries in the mountains. ... Zeus and Hera are at the apex of the Pantheon, followed by Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, and others, but as in the Near East when their mythology relates the repossession of female deities by male deities, the same process occurred in Greece at this time. ...

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Cheryl Glenn, a professor at Oregon State University explains, "for the past 2500 years in Western culture, the ideal women has been disciplined by cultural codes that require a closed mouth (silence), a closed body (chastity), and an enclosed life (domestic confinement)".1 In Athenian society women could easily fit into this described mold. ... They were silent supporters of their men and stayed on the sidelines while their male counterparts took part in politics and other public activities. ... Her legacy became anything but silent and she appears in multiple historical works by Pl...

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Cheryl Glenn, a professor at Oregon State University explains, "for the past 2500 years in Western culture, the ideal women has been disciplined by cultural codes that require a closed mouth (silence), a closed body (chastity), and an enclosed life (domestic confinement)".1 In Athenian society women could easily fit into this described mold. ... They were silent supporters of their men and stayed on the sidelines while their male counterparts took part in politics and other public activities. ... Her legacy became anything but silent and she appears in multiple historical works by Pl...

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Any male citizen was eligible for this council (only 40% of population was a citizen). ... Below the council, was an assembly of all the Spartiate males that selected the council and approved or vetoed council proposals. ... They also believed in the balance of mind and body. ... At the tender age of seven, all Spartan males entered a military school. ...

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This sculpture was constructed using a strict mathematical formula that was believed to represent the perfect male body. ... Roman artists began to use the Greek ideas of detailed anatomy and mathematical proportions to depict the bodies of their rulers. ... The body of this sculpture is based on that of a Greek God figure such as the Hermes, by Praxtiteles. ...

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This sculpture was constructed using a strict mathematical formula that was believed to represent the perfect male body. ... Roman artists began to use the Greek ideas of detailed anatomy and mathematical proportions to depict the bodies of their rulers. ... The body of this sculpture is based on that of a Greek God figure such as the Hermes, by Praxtiteles. ...

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The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

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This is unusual in a society that is male under enemy control and women are considered to be weak. ... In fact, Euripides received criticism for his portrayal of strong women but the playwright was never one to cater to traditional Greek male attitudes. ... He had a lot of confidence in his prowess on the battlefield because of his protected body. ...

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The first of these ideas was of Contraposto, the naturalistic and balanced body style that became widely popular, and deviant from previous ideals. ... Many other ideas differed from the Archaic period such as the modification of proportion, the highly idealized male figure, and movement and proportions of the body are determined by geometry and math. ...

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It has the body of a lion and the head of a god/pharaoh. Khafre Enthroned 88 62 Idealized features and body. ... Body (arms and legs) carved from stone, no negative space. ... Hatshepsut 90 68 Wearing a male pharaoh's clothes. She also wears a headdress and fake beard to show her affinity with the male pharaoh role. ...

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