"The Titanes (Titans) numbered six men and five women, being born, as certain writers of myths relate, of Ouranos (Uranus) and Ge (Gaea), but according to others, of one of the Kouretes (Curetes) and Titaia (Titaea), from whom as their mother they derive the name they have. The...
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women & Eoiae Fragment 92 (from Philodemus, On Piety 34) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "But Hesiod (says that Apollon) would have been cast by Zeus into Tartaros (Tartarus) [for killing the Kyklopes (Cyclopes)] : but Leto interceded...
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When she grew up, she ran off into the wild and took to hunting with a band of women’s liberation Nymphs (particularly the Dryads) such as Callisto, who joined her with vows of chastity. Despite the hunting, Artemis cares deeply for animals. But she has little respect for human males...
“Augustus of Prima Porta,” side view, a copy of a bronze statue of c. 20 BCE. Marble, height 6′ 8″ (2.03 m). Musei Vatican. Photograph by Ilia Shurygin used with permission. Yesterday I was looking for a detail image of “Augustus of Prima Porta” to show to a student, and...
Three female rulers of African islands who owned a golden statue of Athena, which was stolen by Perseus. Beautiful courtesan Heraclitus An allegorical interpretation, where Medusa’s beauty metaphorically “turned men to stone.” Libyan warrior women Dionysius Scytobrachion Describes the Gorgons...
an ambivalent response which influenced attitudes to nudity in Victorian art.1 The language of the Venus statue informed descriptions of real-life beauties, such as Lillie Langtry, and the attitude of men to women in fictions, such as in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and George Mered...
Atwood’s retelling of the popular myth describes an ancient world made for men from a powerful woman’s perspective, one has rarely seen in ancient Greek literature. While a 21st century adaptation, it stands as an important vision of the lives of women during a time where they were given...
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Ziller had also designed Milos island's museum, where a copy of the original statue is now on display.On the sidelines of the show, the Greek designer also talked about today's beauty standards and how the fashion industry is becoming more inclusive....