Heath mind in healthy body: Roman and Greek statues and why they are made

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are looking for some statues from the ancient Greek and Rome, we must see that the models of those statues are quite well physical strength. Of course, the artists have made the same kind of statues even in the modern era, but they have copied the style of those statues. So those medieval- and renaissance statues can be said as the "roman" or "Greek statues". When we are talking about those sculptures what are shown the sportsman or something like that, we must think that those statues are made for some purpose.

The statues are very high-level handwork, and they are made of expensive materials. Molds what are used were high-class work and those sculptors hadn't got computerized working equipment and the work was high standard titivated. So the question is "why those well-known statues have been created"? Those statues purpose is probably to be some teaching artifact.


They were used as the model of "perfect man". The mission of the statue is probably to show anatomical dimensions of the perfect sportsman for the people, who selected the gamers to the Greek Olympics. And in those days the mission of the Olympics was to help the leaders of the Greek states to select the warriors to their phalanx. Even in those times of the war of the Peloponnese, the philosophers have thought, what kind of person is the perfect warrior?


What kind of persons is the best for the best? Those people were selected as professional warriors for the Greek phalanx, and their mission was also to protect the leaders of the nation or city-states. So the Olympics were the good place to take meters for the men, who won those games. Greek philosophers had limited methods for use in the selection process.


In that time the most hardcore military in the western world was, of course, the Spartan military, Nowadays the scientists can use DNA-tests to select perfect military men, and they can take DNA-samples from the best special forces operators, and then compile them together, and if it is same sequences between the operators, those sequences might use for help to select that personnel in the most hardcore military operators in the world.