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About Antiquity
So I was discussing this with my mom today - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwendolyngrace and I went to see the Pompeii exhibit at the Museum of Science (MOS) on Saturday (since I have a museum membership I got us in for very little $$ - less than a movie ticket in fact). Almost the same exhibit I saw last year in NYC (NYC exibited it better, though - the MOS didn't lay out the exhibit very well or with a thought to crowd control - which was unfortunate). NYC had a couple of extra things (the brothel room was missing from the MOS as was a couple of the more explicit items) and the MOS added some general things about volcanoes and some learning stations personed by museum docents. Anyway, to what I was talking to my mom about...
Why, in ancient statues depicting the (always naked or nearly naked) gods are the male gods just standing there looking pretty and the female gods (usually not quite as naked) always doing something fierce?
Its like the male gods are saying "yeah, I'm here... hangin' out. Go ahead - adore me!" and the female gods are all "I'm gonna fuck your shit up if you mess with my people!" I noticed this in both the little alter bronzes and the large stone garden statues. It isn't as if the male gods were pushovers, so why were they depicted as just pretty?
gwendolyngrace and I went to see the Pompeii exhibit at the Museum of Science (MOS) on Saturday (since I have a museum membership I got us in for very little $$ - less than a movie ticket in fact). Almost the same exhibit I saw last year in NYC (NYC exibited it better, though - the MOS didn't lay out the exhibit very well or with a thought to crowd control - which was unfortunate). NYC had a couple of extra things (the brothel room was missing from the MOS as was a couple of the more explicit items) and the MOS added some general things about volcanoes and some learning stations personed by museum docents. Anyway, to what I was talking to my mom about...Why, in ancient statues depicting the (always naked or nearly naked) gods are the male gods just standing there looking pretty and the female gods (usually not quite as naked) always doing something fierce?
Its like the male gods are saying "yeah, I'm here... hangin' out. Go ahead - adore me!" and the female gods are all "I'm gonna fuck your shit up if you mess with my people!" I noticed this in both the little alter bronzes and the large stone garden statues. It isn't as if the male gods were pushovers, so why were they depicted as just pretty?