... sculptures of this period men start to appear naked. The figure of Kouros of Anavysos (Figure 1) is one such example of this archaic period. From this point it became popular and very desirable for men to perform athletics in the nude. Andrew Stewart is quoted as saying that, "they saw the custom as a concrete manifestation of such desirable manly attributes as courage, strength, speed, fitness, and so on, all of which 'naturally' create a handsome body."2 From this it is evident that the nude male becomes a representation beauty, strength and the perfect body. Artists, from this new concept, wanted to depict the bodies of their figures as idealistic and beautiful. Women did appear, rarely, nude when participating in sporting events or at festivals and as a result of this could not be married. Stewart states that, "unmarried Spartan girls or pathenoi...practiced athletics, singing and dancing naked at ...

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