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How would ancient Greeks and Romans view modern bodybuilders?

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How would ancient Greeks and Romans view modern bodybuilders? Would they bow down and start worshiping them?
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>>2912900
they would probably point and laugh, just like people do today
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No, they would think they were stupid and ugly.
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They'd instantly convert to Genova's Witnesses and go on the Big Lenny diet+gear plan.
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>>2912900
They throw those niggers to Colosseum for laughs
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>>2912900
>what would a civilization who valued idealistic proportions above all else think about disfigured mutants
gee i wonder
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>>2912900
How can it have musculed beer belly?
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>>2914833
Bodybuilders often develop distended intestines or something.
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>>2914833
Yuge amounts of HGH, Roids, Test, stimulants, and tranny fucking.
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>>2914833
>>2914838
Palumboism/roid gut
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>>2914782
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>>2914841
>and tranny fucking.
But that makes you aesthetic anon
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>>2914884
Who are you to argue with the Tom Platz of Abs?
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>>2914884
Cookie cutter
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>>2912900
>>2913002
>>2913044
>>2912915

How would they view him then?
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They would definitely worship Jason Genova, that man is a God on earth, comparable to Heracles. All those cookie cutters out there today would be laughed at.
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>>2916001
Self obsessed narcisistic fuckwit
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>>2914845
GOLEM GET YE GONE
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>>2916001
He would be a catamite for some patrician.
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>>2914859
>all Hail Caesar
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>>2912900
Well, there's Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hercules himself.
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>>2917614
Someone seems upset.

Go look in the mirror.
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>bodybuilders
a meme
>someone who builds for functional strength and not looks
good
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>>2912900
Why are these men pregnant?
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Whats with all the cuck threads recently?
sage
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>>2920131
sup rippletits
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>>2921676
Insulin and HGH causing organ growth and fat storage around organs
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>>2914833
Using growth hormones causes your organs to also grow abnormally large swelling the gut
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Big Lenny is literally the pinnacle of greek aestheticism
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>>2920131
Basically, this.
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>>2912900
How about you post some that aren't totally fucked up and you might have a slightly interesting thread?
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The same way we view modern day body builders.
As freaks.
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>>2924369
>>2920131

>Le working out for the confidence and enjoying the way you look from it is wrong meme

Insecure cucks, time to leave
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>>2924365
>just get fat to grow calves bro
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>>2914841
He looks like some sort of goblinoid ogre from some wannabe-Lotr fantasy game.
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>>2914841
>This is a white man
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>>2914845

GOLEM GET YE GONE!
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>>2924365
>/fit/ and /his/ crossposting

I'm okay with this
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>>2916001
R i p in peace senpai
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>>2914845
GOLEM GET YE GONE
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>>2914859
>modern day bodybuilders
>posting young Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not that modern is it now Billy?
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>>2914845
GOLEM GET YE GONE
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>>2916001
Physically Zyzz is pretty close to Adonis
The fact that he died fucking ladyboys in Thailand would also probably excite greeks
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>>2924365
He looks so happy :')
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>>2912900
Poorly.

The Greeks and Romans thought Physical Fitness was just a route to a certain goal: being a healthy human being in body and mind.

Bodybuilders confuse the route with the goal.
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>>2926812
>modern period ranges from the renaissance to today

Try again, reddit
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>bodybuilding for much aesthetic and muh functional strength
>Not boxing or practicing MMA for stamina, fame and glory while making the Romans and Greens proud

Are you faggots even trying?
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>>2912900
Paradoxically I think they would see them as effeminate weirdos
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>>2927388
modern period starts when Queen Victoria died.
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>>2914845
GOLEM GET YE GONE
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Greeks would have no choice but to carve statues of these body builders in remembrance and remove Zeus from their beliefs and replace them with modern day Mr. Olympias
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>>2926122
>White
>Man
No, That's a brown mess.
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>>2912900
Older bodybuilders were better
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>>2928579
Aye. They were less bizzare.
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>>2914845
GOLEM GET YE GONE
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>>2914845
Golem get ye gone
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>>2914841
Hes like an inside out tortuise
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>>2926129
I'm not gay, but I'll just say it.

Those are woman lips.
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>>2916001
Ancient greeks would return Zyzz to Mt. Olympus to be reunited with his father Zeus.
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