The Classical Contrapost is one the most important characteristical signs of the figurative art of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polyclitus or his successors like Lysippos, Skopas and more in according to canon in the fourth century B.C. Is means the tension in the pelvis through the change from standing leg and playing leg, what so called as ponderation. The pelvis is here not axial with the vertical statue like archaic statues earlier until the young men-statue of Kritios ca. 490-480 B.C. The Polycletian statues for exemple the Discophoros and the Doryphoros are idealized athletic youngmen with the divine sense. You can see it on the Roman copies of the statues of Hermes, Heracles, what have in a part the divine attributs. The History of Greece extends back to the arrival of the Greeks in Europe some time before 1500 BC, even though there has only been an independent state called Greece since Turkey, Italy and Libya. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC. He was of the school of Argos, a contemporary of Pheidias and in the opinion of the Greeks his equal. ... Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BC. Among the works attributed to him are Eros Stringing the Bow (various copies exist; the best is in the British Museum); Agias (known from a marble copy found and preserved in Delphi); Weary Hercules (originally placed in the Baths of... In physics, tension is a force on a body directed to produce strain (extension); it can be considered to be negative compression. ... Human male pelvis, viewed from front Human female pelvis, viewed from front The pelvis is the bony structure located at the base of the spine (properly known as the caudal end). ... Axial has different meanings: In geometry it means: along the same line as an axis (coaxial) or centerline: parallel (geometry), contrary to radial or perpendicular In anatomy it relates to an anatomical direction of animals and humans. ... An object is in a vertical position when it is aligned in an up-down direction, perpendicular to the horizon. ... Adjective archaic (more archaic, most archaic) From an earlier period and no longer in common use; of or characterized by antiquity or archaism, antiquated. ... The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus, meaning Discus-Bearer is one of the figures in according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. ... Doryphoros, also spelled Doryphorus, meaning Spear-Bearer, is the title given to the most well-known work of the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. ... Roman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens, but also applicable to typography, math, and a commune. ... For other meanings see Hermes (disambiguation) Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermēs (Greek: Έρμης: pile of marker stones), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures... For the son of Alexander the Great, see Heracles (Macedon). ...