Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
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Cauldron mug from Rogue + Wolf
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Bronze statuette with silver eyes, depicting the goddess Aphrodite. Artist unknown; 3rd - 1st cent. BCE (Hellenistic period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Statue of Aphrodite
Roman copy of the 1st-2nd century AD from a Greek statue of the 3rd-2nd century BC.
The goddess of love is shown as though surprised at her bath. Originally, her arms reached forward to shield her breasts and pubis in a gesture that both concealed and accentuated her sexuality.
That statue, the first major Greek work to show the goddess nude, was celebrated throughout antiquity. This work has the same gesture of modesty and is similar to another Roman copy, the so-called Medici Venus.
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.)
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An amazing (and short) book on the origins and evolution of Venus/Aphrodite by renown historian Bettany Hughes. There’s also a BBC film documentary version I highly recommend.
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Priestess of Delphi (1891) by John Collier
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Two dancers in costume stand between the columns of Poseidon’s Temple, Greece, 1930. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic Creative
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