It became common to install victory statues at the Olympia, which promoted the development of artistic representation, particularly the representation of the human body. It is evident that these documented statues served as motive for sculptors to carve nude male bodies. Thanks to the Olympic Games, where men had to compete naked, Greek artists developed the ability to depict the human body as realistically as possible. Most of the artists' works were in bronze and are still preserved to us in the marble copies found in Roman times (Miller,