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Art, desire, and the body in ancient Greece

by Andrew F. Stewart

1997 272 pages eng

The body was central to the visual culture of ancient Greece, reflecting an obsession with physical beauty, integrity, dynamism, and power. Greek images of the body, nude and draped, still captivate the Western imagination. In this penetrating study, Andrew Stewart analyzes the problem of the Greeks…

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