What Hades Can Teach Us About Ancient Greek Masculinity

We can’t imagine that most, if any, men looked like kuoroi—Zag himself represents such an ideal. Kuoroi are more like the idealized and fetishized bodies we see in media, propaganda, and art today. Myron’s Diskobolos, the representation of masculinity in its dynamic aspect, was infamously appropriated by Nazis as their eugenic metric for beauty. This cuts to […]