In Greek culture around the time of Plato, the perfect ideal person was considered.
Plato's idea that there was a perfect world of ideas affected this pieces subject and the
subject's action. Many works of his time period were sculptures that were meant to be
viewed from all angles, attempting to be a closer match to that of the ideal. This idea that the
ideal world was real and what matter not the physical also effect the actions depicted in
many works of this time period. Most of the works are depicting an ideal Greek person
performing a noble act not just a common act. Many of the works are also just a still image
of a figure from a single moment in time. All of the male sculptures appear in the nude
because they represent a perfect man with nothing to hide. These are some of the artistic
conventions that were influenced by Plato's ideas. There are many different aspects of
Greek art that can be accredited to Plato for creating. Among them was the "Perfect" figure......

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Title: Plato's "The Symposium"
Approximate Word Count: 2069
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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