Greek art is characterized by the representation of human beings. Particularly, the figures and forms of human bodies.
The Greeks put mankind at the centre and made the gods in the image of humankind.
To represent the body is a basic human instinct, and in the ancient world, the Greeks were the one who always desired to represent the body in their art. For instance: the naked female form in early Greece was a sign of religious cult connected with the quest for fertility in childbearing, or in the productivity of the earth.