Marble Head Of Athena Feminist Analysis

Some women, mostly but not excluding Greek goddess and heroines, were shown great power and were viewed as being beautiful. The women who were scene as very powerful or were worshiped for such influences mostly consisted of the Greek goddess’s and heroines from Greek mythology. This did not exclude outside women who lived during that time for some of them also possessed greater power then women of past generations. Greek goddess’s and heroines were often praised, not only for the power they possessed, but also widely for their menace and stunning beauty. It was very uncommon for a women to ever be considered beautiful or rather for it to be expressed. Beauty, at the time, was honored wildly through art work such as sculptures and paintings. Considering the people of …show more content…
This piece of art was sculpted out of marble in 200 B.C. during the Hellenistic period in Greece. The statue only consists of the head today but originally it was full bodies sculpt. It was thought that the statue may have pretreated Athena striding forward and may have been located outside (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000- 2014). Art work at the time very rarely, if ever, portrayed women so for this to be scene was very uncommon. Also the stands she was in shows great strength in a women so this made the statue even more miraculous. It is believed that her stands may be showing her as the protector of the city (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000- 2014). Also found of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's website under the Collection Online is a full body statue of Aphrodite called “Marble Statue of Aphrodite” which is a copy of the statue made in Greek in the 2nd or 3rd century B.C. This was known as “the first major Greek work to show the goddess nude” and was wildly popular (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-