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>>16818600
Not him, but dynamism in Greek sculpture is pretty evident in the progression from the impassive, rigid Kritios Boy of the early Classical period to the incredibly dynamic Nike of Samothrace, where you can perceive the space around the sculpture. Anyway, I don't think Spengler really says Greeks were undynamic. It's more about the the Appollonian soul being rooted to the soma, the body. He doesn't say that they didn't have a notion of infinity either, just that they didn't prefer it. He cites the Greek dislike of irrational numbers, which is taken to the extreme in Pythagoreanism where it is considered a heresy.