On tour Summer 2011
- A climate of fear: What the past tells us about human responses to climate change
- 30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world
- Desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male body
- Science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeology
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Desirability and domination: Greek sculpture and the modern male body
29 June 2011
Thursday 23 June 2011
Professor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek and Latin)
This lecture discusses Greek sculptures and some of the ways in which their ideal representations of the male body have shaped the twentieth century strong man and the bodybuilder, particularly in terms of their display of power and sexuality. This talk includes the culture of the circus strongman, bodybuilding shows, physique magazines and the post-war craze for Italian sword-and-sandal films starring bodybuilders as ancient heroes.
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