> that ab vascularity

They spent a lot of time in the gym, we know that
Most likely they weren't ripped due to nutrition and diets, but they were certainly buff

>>2062474
That's because they were faggots

>Socrates was ripped.jpg

>>2063166
There's a difference between being ripped and being physically fit/not looking like the average North American

they were probably ottermode skinny and muscular especially in the forearms from manual labor probably looked like modern day professional rock climbers

If you see the average shin guard they were tiny like a child's one yet the shield is giant indicating they must have been pretty strong

>>2062474
many of the statues you see are what the ideal was, so they were about as fit as modern people are relative to any advertisement featuring a shirtless guy with a six pack. Keep in mind that a lot of greco-roman art was also produced in the renaissance (e.g. Michelangelo's "David"), and that was an idealised version of the greco-roman world. To my knowledge most of the sculptures are renaissance, and greco-roman art would have been in the forms of paintings and pottery (but I'm not an art history person, so I can't verify that, I just have art history friends).

>>2063483
this
Often you'll see muscles that don't even exist, or one's far larger than what is possible to achieve, at least without steroids.

Fit, from manual labour and war? Yes.

>>2063219
This.

>>2062474
The statue would belong to a /d/ thread of the time.
>post heroic hunks /d/
It is an exaggeration of what was deemed good. In classical greek literature, a muscular, clean, athletic body was evidence for a "good", "proper", healthy, desirable person.

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>>2062474
I feel like you're just obliquely requesting that someone post this pic.

Well, here you go.

>>2063219
>especially in the forearms from manual labor
Yeah, because manual labour only works the forearms

>>2062474
>Most likely they weren't ripped due to nutrition and diets
the idea that everyone in the past was short and skinny because of poor diets is somewhat overstated because records of that sort of thing generally only go back to the 19th century, when the majority of the population was malnourished industrial workers. In reality average height varies widely across the centuries, corresponding to peaks and reductions in population. It also varied greatly according to class. I'm too lazy to google it so I can't say for sure, but my guess is that the citizenry of classical Athens would have had a lot more calories in their diet than the urban poor of first century rome.

In answer to OP's question: Classical Greeks were relatively wealthy, did plenty of manual labour, and due to their politics had a strong gym culture*. All this adds up to suggest that yes, Ancient Greeks really were that ripped.


*stemming from the convention that every citizen should be fit for military service. as opposed to other cultures where only the nobility would be expected to fight and the common peasant, if used in battle at all, was only sent in en mass as arrow fodder.

>>2063637
That pic makes me smile every time I see it :)

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>>2062474
Physical fitness was important to them, as working out in the gymnasium was a crucial part of a Greek man's life (socially and for health). However, they weren't all Jonathan Joestar-level ripped.

>>2063637
>the beginning of European civilisation was driven by a frenzy of homoerotic lust.
I'm okay with this.

>>2063660
>That pic makes me smile
personally, I find it affects other parts of my body more
>Socrates lusting over a teenager's sweaty, manly pecs