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Ideal beauty in the classical world
Ideal beauty in the classical world was in many senses different to that in modern Western society. This is especially clear due to depictions of the human form in their sculpture and other visual art freuqently being nude (especially depictions of deities), and was a particular obsession of the Greeks and Romans themselves, since Greek athletics was practised in nudity and when attending the Roman baths all men and women would be completely naked.
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