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Huge Farnese Hercules
« on: February 28, 2009, 09:43:04 PM »
Created 2,400 years ago. This sculpture shows the mythical Hero during his twelve labors. The sculpture shows absolutely realistic in its proportion and muscle shapes. This was made in a time when little knowledge was known about the actual muscle shapes, especially not what they would have looked like if they were so large. The sculpture also shows minute details such as the veins running up the stomach and the defined obliques as well as the true to life biceps and chest.

The artist couldn't have worked with corpses to get the muscle shapes since they are quite differently shaped when they are much smaller, and the specific stance shows how the muscles in fact look in such a stance. The details such as the veins, also true to life, suggest that an actual model was used when carving this sculpture.


The question: What individual could ever have been this large over 2 thousand years ago? Without any chemical enhancements? Without modern nutrition or exercise equipment?

My guess is that the model for this statue was in fact someone who had an abnormal Myostatin gene, allowing them to have such extreme musculature without actually using anabolic Steroids.



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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 09:51:22 PM »
By the Gods!


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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 09:52:06 PM »
That is interesting.

If anyone was there, knew this guy, and can add to this, please let us know.

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2009, 12:56:11 AM »
once upon a time giants walked this planet 20ft + in hight

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2009, 01:14:37 AM »
I saw this statue not long ago myself and wondered the same thing.  I believe that people today have developed such an attachment things outside of themselves to give them the bodies they want that we have lost a lot of the understanding of what it takes to build without these attachments.

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 01:18:41 AM »
Buddy's jacked, gotta be the first to say it, all drugs ;)

lol, and whatever he made up in muscle he lacked in the sexual department, lol the ladies would need a microscope to find that thing.

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2009, 01:47:25 AM »
once upon a time giants walked this planet 20ft + in hight

paleanthology is a relatively new field of study, thousands of years ago it didn't exist.  History has taught us that humans will always invent an answers for questions their brains cannot comprehend.

if you came across the skull of a wolly mammouth without knowing what it was you might think that it was cyclops as well



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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2009, 01:59:12 AM »
lol the ladies would need a microscope to find that thing.


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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2009, 03:57:15 AM »
the heads generic the body's real(edit: based on a real physique)

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2009, 04:07:29 AM »
Its common knowledge that they made the statue bigger then the person :)

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Re: Huge Farnese Hercules
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2009, 04:16:22 AM »
Dude does side bends all day.