What was the body type of the average Athenian citizen?

>>1817713
Probably T-rex mode given all the running about with weight.

Most Greek citizens weren't athletes. The life of the common Greek was nasty, brutish and short. They wouldn't have had the means to develop the 'ideal' body type of statues and athletes. Olympians would have been like today's celebrities. They were healthy because they could afford it

They weren't that fit. They didn't have sophisticated weight endurance training as we do what now to rigorously train specific areas and build muscle. Texts don't really mention any kind of weight training (even though there's archaeological evidence in Greece that athletes used some kind of primitive stone weights, which weren't even that heavy, for specific sports training). Their definition of a long distance race was just below a 5k. Dancing gets mentioned as a serious and common exercise that people did a lot for exercise.

There's no discernible evidence that Athenian citizens were more fit or athletically capable than any other polis. Plato and Xenophon both infer that most Athenians weren't sufficiently participating in exercise enough (if at all) that it was potentially troublesome for the State. It's safe to assume that because of the athletic culture they did have, and given the fact that a lot of citizens had slaves--and a portion of those had enough profit from their estates--that they could afford the time to workout at the gymnasium. But not all could afford that, and a lot of those who could, didn't, out of laziness.

Don't be fooled by people posting that Socrates quote or whatever and take it as something that reflects conventional Athenian practice at the time.. Socrates, that we know from his portrayal by Plato and Xenophon, was ironically polar to most popular Athenian practices (i.e. disliking luxury and material wealth, and preferring an ascetic or impecunious lifestyle over a materialist one; promoting fitness and being productive whenever you can in your free-time instead of loofing off or living a sedant lifestyle; disliked oratory, rhetoric, and poetry; indifferent to politics instead of believing that his opinion matters on every issue regarding the State; and condemned practices that over-indulged in pleasures (such as getting drunk, getting into pederast relations with boys for their physical appearance, over-eating).

>>1818038
Dumbass everyone in Athens was /fit as fuck. Every member of the 4 social classes would participate in the Athenian military in some form or another. Thetes operated as skirmishers or Trireme rowers, Zeugitai would operate as hoplites, the hippeis would operate as cavalry and the Pentacosiomedimni could operate as Strategoi or whatever they want.

>>1818768
>Thetes operated as skirmisher
They'd amble along with the res tof the army as it "marched"with their light gear, and their ENITRE combat role would consist of perhaps an hour or two or work which was nothing more than a walk, throwing or shooting a handful-literally in may cases-of projectiles, and then withdrawal, which wasn't even guaranteed to involve running.

Give the average office worker some training with a javelin and they can do this.


>or Trireme rowers
Duty shared with the metics. The metics being half of the total population. Thetes would be a minority of rowers.

>Zeugitai would operate as hoplites
Most of whom literally did nothing more strenuous than walking to battle, holding their shield up, and walking forward. Ever. Not exactly demanding work.

>the hippeis would operate as cavalry
Most would serve on foot. This is also the only group that really did anything demanding, aside from the Aristoi.

>>1818824
Athenians had a lot of slaves so they could afford to dedicate their daily lives to being /fit/, being aesthetic and mirin other fit men.
Ancient greeks in general were obsessed with being fit and they would spend their whole lives on being fit, they had nothing better to do.
They're ideal body image was a very balanced "swole"

>>1818205
Imma hit you with a reply bc I feel bad that you put this much effort in and nobody cared. Good post

>>1818906
The average greek, even of the hoplite class, was a fucking subsistence farmer. The slaves? helped with that farm.

You're a moron.

>>1817713
Like a farmer, but a little more aesthetic. maybe.

>>1817713
Fuccboi mode