Discuss the significance of the nude figure in Ancient Greek Sculpture.

The classic nude figure in Ancient Greek Sculpture often referred to the young nude male. Throughout the archaic, classical and Hellenistic periods, the nude figure was constantly evolving, showing the different styles in each period. By following the styles of the nude figures we actually see how they marked each periods. And by looking at the different styles of the nude figures, one can observe how the figures reflect to the ancient Greek culture and attitudes.

Margaret Walters pointed out that ‘the young nude male is the central image in Greek Art’. The nude male youth embodied the Greeks’ cultural and social ideals. It is the male and not the female because it was not acceptable in their society then for any respectable women to be seen publicly without her clothes except the Naked Aphrodite whom hardly existed before the 4th century. From the perspective of social ideals, the spaces of the Greek society ‘were segregated: the public realm belonged to men, whereas wome...