
Marble relief of the hoplitodromos, from Athens. ca. 500 BCE. The relief depicts a nude youth wearing a helmet and running in the race in heavy armour. The traces on the slab and the details of the relief decoration reveal that it is a grave relief. National Archaeological Museum of Athens [449×650]
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[https://www.namuseum.gr/en/collection/archaiki-periodos/](https://www.namuseum.gr/en/collection/archaiki-periodos/)
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplitodromos](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplitodromos)
Nude, running in heavy armour?
these nonsense titles are getting worse and worse. Who writes this crap?
Bot?
Ahh my nipples they hurt! They hurt when I twist them!
Imagine if they brought this back into the Olympics?
This look far more like the male equivalent of a Caryatid – using his head he is supporting an architectural element with an ionic volute.