Discus thrower is a bronze sculpture carved by the Greek sculptor millon in about 450 BC. The original has been lost. The replicas are now collected in the Rome National Museum, the Terme Museum and the Vatican Museum.
The discus thrower is based on the sports activities in the real life of Greece. It depicts the expressive moment of a strong man in the process of discus throwing.
When the discus selected by the sculpture is placed back to the highest point and is about to be thrown, it has a strong attraction of "leading but not sending". Although it is a static sculpture, the artist grasped the key link from one state to another, and achieved the effect of making the audience obtain a "sense of movement" psychologically. It has become a model of later art creation and an important material for studying ancient Greek sculpture.

Discus thrower shows a typical instantaneous action of discus throwing: the athlete's upper body turns to the right, leans forward into a bow, the center of gravity falls on the right foot, the left arm is connected to the right knee, and the right hand holds the discus and turns to the back.

The period from 449 BC to 334 BC was the heyday of Greek sculpture art, which was called the "classical period" in the art history. A large number of excellent sculpture works came from this period. Discus thrower is one of the existing and popular art masterpieces and also the representative work of ancient Greek sculptor millon. [4]
The discus thrower is based on the sports activities in the real life of Greece. The character image is the real image observed by the sculptor from the real life, and it may be to commend a sports master or a winner.

Overall image
The strong motion of discus throwing and the stability of the statue are well combined. The center of gravity of the statue falls on the right leg, so the right leg becomes the axis for the free flexion and rotation of the whole statue body, while maintaining the stability of the statue. The open arms of discus throwers are like a bow full of strings, which drives the bending of the body and presents an unstable state. However, the discus held high unifies all the movements of the human body, making people feel a temporary balance. The whole statue is full of a coherent sense of movement and rhythm, breaking through the limitations of time and space in art, conveying the idea of movement, and vividly expressing the harmony, fitness and youth of the human body. It shows that the ancient Greek artists have made a qualitative leap not only in artistic skills, but also in artistic thoughts and expressiveness. This statue is regarded as "the eternal solidification in space".
The composition of this statue sums up the complicated and contradictory movements into a few vivid and convincing gestures. These gestures give people a sense of concentration and concentration. In particular, the author's ingenuity is that he brilliantly summarizes the whole continuous process of the discus throwing movement and shows a dynamic beauty of harmony and ideals. The discus thrower's open arms are like a full bow, making people think of launching. The open shoulders and the arm like the shoulder pole are very symmetrical. Here we can see that the sculpture in the classical period likes to use the positive law. At the same time, the lines of the two arms of the discus thrower and the lines of his left thigh trailing behind form a semicircle. Its outline is like a drawn bow. The legs and arms are connected into a pattern. The structure of each part of the body also reflects a kind of affirmation and stability. The right leg close to the ground is like an axis to keep the tortuous body stable. His thighs and torso form two equal diagonal lines on the upper side. The two circles of the discus and the human head echo each other from left to right. The sculptor shows the temporality in a fixed posture space, and the whole artistic image is beautiful and moving.