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A 5 page paper which examines Greek and Roman art as it relates to how the cultures felt about sex. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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culture of the time. This is because art pieces, especially pottery and sculpture, remain long after the written word, and in many cases, stand as the only "written" documentation of
a culture. Through study and research and comparing and contrasting one piece with another, archeologists and other scholars are able to unfold ancient cultures, providing information about how they felt
and believed concerning many different realities in their world. Sex in ancient cultures is one of those realities, or elements, that art reveals information about. The following paper examines what
the attitudes and beliefs of the Greeks and Romans were based on the art they have left behind. Greek and Roman Culture: Understanding Sex Through Art The Greeks
were a people who apparently held very high regard for the male body, and as such the functions of the male body. One can see numerous artistic depictions of naked
men in ancient Greek art wherein women were generally clothed in most cases. One author notes the following in these regards: "The Greeks werent shy about displaying their manly attributes.
Nudity was celebrated in Greece as in no culture before or since. Were so used to nude classical sculpture and painting that we figure thats how everybody walked around back
in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis or no, have an erotic charge that can
make even a straight male sweat" (The Straight Dope, 2007). The male body was perhaps the epitome of beauty and power and the Greeks lived off the notion that
a strong man was the ideal of civilization in so many ways. As noted, women were not often depicted nude and as The Straight Dope (2007) notes it seems as
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