{"id":206053,"date":"2025-02-10T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/apoxyomenos-the-ancient-greek-masterpiece-salvaged-from-the-sea"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:08:28","slug":"apoxyomenos-the-ancient-greek-masterpiece-salvaged-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/apoxyomenos-the-ancient-greek-masterpiece-salvaged-from-the-sea","title":{"rendered":"Apoxyomenos: The Ancient Greek Masterpiece Salvaged from the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apoxyomenos-the-ancient-greek-masterpiece-salvaged-from-the-sea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/ancient-greece\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Ancient Greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ancient Greek<\/a> statue of Apoxyomenos, also known as the \u201cCroatian Apoxiomenos,\u201d is a remarkable ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping oil and dust from his body with a strigil, a tool used by <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/2025\/01\/05\/workout-training-tips-from-ancient-greek-athletes\/\">ancient Greeks<\/a> for cleaning themselves after exercise.<\/p>\n<p>It dates back to the 2nd or 1st century BC and was discovered in 1996 by a Belgian tourist diving off the Croatian island of Lo\u0161inj in the Adriatic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>This statue is significant not only for its artistic quality but also because it is one of the few large-scale ancient bronze statues to have survived largely intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient Greek statue of Apoxyomenos, also known as the \u201cCroatian Apoxiomenos,\u201d is a remarkable ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping oil and dust from his body with a strigil, a tool used by ancient Greeks for cleaning themselves after exercise. It dates back to the 2nd or 1st century BC and was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}