- The figure of an athlete holding a strigil (a curved blade used to scrape oil and dirt off the skin) is referred to as an Apoxyomenos, Greek for “scraping himself.”
- Grains found in the stomach of a mouse trapped inside the Apoxyomenos’s interior helped archeologists date the statue to the first century BC.
- Apoxyomenos is a young and beautiful, perfectly built and nude athlete; the personification of the classical ideal of beauty admired by the ancient world.
- 'Apoxyomenos' means a statue of an ancient Greek athlete scraping sweat from his body with a small curved instrument called a strigil.
- Who was Apoxyomenos in ancient Rome? …reliable is that of the Apoxyomenos, a young male athlete, scraping and cleaning his oil-covered skin with a strigil.
- The statue represents an “apoxyomenos”, an athlete removing the oil and sand from his body with a small metal scraper called a strigil.
- TThe bronze statue of the ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos was being transported on a Roman ship during the 1st century.
- The original Apoxyomenos is known to have been transported to Rome at the time of the emperor Tiberius (reigned 14–37 ce ), who placed it before Agrippa’s bath.
- From eight well-known variations of the Apoxyomenos prototype (the most famous being the bronze statue from Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna...