It's funny how cultures change. When statues were carved by the ancient Greeks to depict the gods, the men were depicted as extremely muscular... An idealised form of the male physique. Even Roman generals had a breastplate shaped as if they had a six pack (when more than likely they had a bit of a belly from eating rich food).
The idealised female physique in those days differs from today's... Not by masses, but enough. Both then and now women with trim figures were rightly considered beautiful. However, you'll notice no ribs... But a healthy mix of muscle and flesh displaying no ribs (I say flesh as opposed to fat... As in todays society fat implies obesity). But in stark contrast today women who are tall and large chested with rib cages showing are considered beautiful. Where as the opposite applied back then, a friend of mine argued that it was because back then you couldn't get surgically enhanced breasts... While I agree with him there... That doesn't stop natural big breasts. So I return to my original statement that the petite figure was idealised over a buxom one.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions... And it takes all sorts for a world to work... But to me the old idealised... the Venus physique... is by far the most beautiful.
Guess that makes me a very lucky man in a classical sense (Not that I didn't think that before).
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