The Greek Body ACTIVE ISBN 978-0-89236-920-1

ISBN 978-0-89236-920-1

Lucilla Burn is keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum

She splits her time between Los Angeles and Milwaukee

Approaches range from securing and restraining objects to decoupling them from the ground through a variety of base-isolation mechanisms

The Greek Body ACTIVE ISBN 978-0-89236-920-1Ian Jenkins and Victoria Turner More than any other ancient civilization, the Greeks placed the human body at the center of their culture. To them, the sculpted human figure was both an object of sensory delight and an expression of an intelligent mind. In the modern popular imagination, mention of the ancient Greeks is likely to conjure up an image of idealized and naked youth, and it is true that the ideal nude, both male and female, is a striking