Minoan Snake Goddess Vs Aphrodite In Greek Art

Within the history of art, there has been many comparisons with different type of artwork from different histories, but they all each had their similarity, yet differences because of the time era that they were in and what they were created for. Each artworks throughout the history all had a meaning behind them and sometime the meaning of each piece of art overlap with one another. The Minoan Snake Goddess and the Greek Aphrodite of Knidos have many features in common, but they also have other different features from one another.
Between the two statues, Minoan Snake Goddess and Greek Aphrodite of Knidos, the Snake Goddess is the older of the two because it was created during the c.1600 BCE in Knossos, Crete while the Greek Aphrodite of Knidos …show more content…
330 B.C. and was sold to the Knidos. The Aphrodite of Knidos was displayed at the center of the Aphrodite’s round temple. Snake Goddess comes from the Minoan culture and the Aphrodite of Knidos come us from the Greek culture and since they both come from different cultures, there would be many different meanings that comes from each …show more content…
The Minoan Snake Goddess statue was dressed in the Minoan traditional clothes while holding snakes, hence the name Snake Goddess, to show that the Snake Goddess is the Mother of Gods to the Minoan. While the Aphrodite of Knidos is fully naked and it’s considered the first female nude statue of the Greek goddess. Compared to the Snake Goddess, the Aphrodite of Knidos has an appearance that has a look that is more human-like because the Greeks loved the naturalistic that humans has, so they wanted to make the statue looks like it has life breath into it. Before naturalism happened during the Greek time period, the Minoans had a stiffer and rigid body structured portrayed in their statues that doesn’t exactly resemble a human body, but it was as close as they could get. The Minoans also weren’t exactly aiming to be as close to a human body form because the sculpture was a representation to a Snake Goddess and Goddess aren’t supposed to be human-like at all. That is one of the main difference in appearance between the two statues. Other than that, both the Snake Goddess and the Aphrodite of Knidos are similar to one another because they both are portrayed as a women figurine and are worshiped