id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yhlcxwtmkrhq3gy3fd2yp7j35m Roger Jones Exhibition: Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art 2015 1 .pdf application/pdf 534 41 79 Exhibition: Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art The Body in Ancient Greek Art The British Museum, London, in the words of Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, is to demonstrate the ancient Greeks' attempts to 'make sense of and handsome — Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite, the ancient Greek period. It is difficult to pick out the star pieces Aphrodite and the Discobolus in the first room are fantastic, and the full-size bronze of a young man recently hauled out of the Elgin Marbles — marbles caused the next room, pieces which we The show ends with a room of such else's words, it makes you go weak at the a concentrated tutorial in Greek art and man and, perhaps, an ironic counterpoint to contemporary world events. roger Jones, E-mail: roger.jones@kcl.ac.uk British Journal of General Practice, June 2015 311 detail of head of apoxyomenos. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. ./cache/work_yhlcxwtmkrhq3gy3fd2yp7j35m.pdf ./txt/work_yhlcxwtmkrhq3gy3fd2yp7j35m.txt