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The nude goddess Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her. She holds her sandal threateningly in her right hand, while the winged god Eros comes to her aid According to the inscription on the base, the group was dedicated by Dionysius of Berytus to his ancestral gods.
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC. It was one of the first life-sized representations of the nude female form in Greek history, displaying an alternative idea to male heroic nudity .
Aphrodite is consistently portrayed as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult, having had no childhood. [109] She is often depicted nude. [ 110 ] In the Iliad , Aphrodite is the apparently unmarried consort of Ares , the god of war, [ 111 ] and the wife of Hephaestus is a different goddess named Charis . [ 112 ]
The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", [a] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original.
3335. Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros. Parian marble. Found in the 'House of the Poseidoniastai of Beryttos' (Beirut), Dolus. Traces of colour can be made out in many places. The nude goddess Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her.
Aphrodite was worshipped in most towns of Cyprus, as well as in Cythera, Sparta, Thebes, Delos, and Elis, and her most ancient temple was at Paphos. Textual sources explicitly mention Aphrodisia festivals in Corinth and in Athens , where the many prostitutes that resided in the city celebrated the festival as a means of worshipping their patron ...
Virginia passed a law in April 2022 that bars any adult (18 or older) from sending an unsolicited “intimate image” via digital communication (text, email, direct messages, ...
Aphrodite's winged little son Eros, the god of romantic love, is similarly trying to assist his mother fight off her assaulter by grasping Pan's right horn and pushing him away. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Pan leans on a tree trunk (the statue's marble support) covered with animal's skin, and has left his hunting stick at the foot of the trunk. [ 1 ]