Английская Википедия:Armed Aphrodite (NAMA 262)

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Armed Aphrodite (Шаблон:Lang-el) is a first-century AD Roman marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite Areia, or the war-like aspect of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who was more commonly worshipped as a goddess of beauty and love. It is modelled after a lost Greek original of the fourth century BC made by Polykleitos the Younger, and is now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens in Greece with accession number 262.

History

The statue was found in ancient Epidaurus, in the sanctuary of Asclepius the year 1886 during excavation works, along with several other sculptures in the site. The statue was eventually transferred to the capital Athens, where it has been displayed ever since in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.Шаблон:Sfn The original Greek sculpture, a work of Polykleitos the Younger, would have been produced around the fourth century BC.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Description

The goddess stands upright supporting her weight on her right leg, her left one relaxed, with her head turned left and tilted toward the ground.Шаблон:Sfn She is dressed in a thin (almost transparent) chiton that embraces her torso so that the finer curves of her body, especially the pubic triangle and the navel, can be admired.Шаблон:Sfn The chiton has slipped off her right shoulder, exposing her firm right breast bare. The chiton is then wound around the left arm, and falling off freely at her side.Шаблон:Sfn

The goddess's hair is coiffed in very delicate and wavy tresses, and is tied with a ribbon and placed at the back of her head in a pigtail that is wound in a snood.Шаблон:Sfn Across her half-exposed half-dressed chest passes the belt of her scabbard diagonally.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She would have bore a sword on her left hand, but it is unknown what the right one held.Шаблон:Sfn

It has been suggested (in particular due to the features of the head) that this statue is not a Roman copy but in fact a Greek original of the Hellenistic era.Шаблон:Sfn

Condition

Most of the right arm, the feet and the nose of the statue are missing, while the face is heavily damaged; the left arm and the head were found separately and had to be reattached to the rest of the sculpture.Шаблон:Sfn With a height of 1,51 m., this parian-marble sculpture is lifesize.Шаблон:Sfn

Aphrodite Areia

In ancient Greek cult and religion, the usually love-associated Aphrodite was sometimes worshipped as a war goddess under the epithet Areia (Шаблон:Lang-grc) or "Aphrodite the Warlike", under which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares, her lover. This representation was found in Sparta, Argos, Cythera and Taras (modern Taranto).[1]

See also

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External links

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