CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Krater, Orbital Inclination, Capitoline Museums
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Musei capitolini, rome: long hair, braided, covered body, fully robed. Idea is she is a virgin goddess: alongside hestia and athena, connections between the three"s virginities (doesn"t mean the same thing in this case, diana, marble, roman copy. Louvre, paris: the girdle suggests she can"t be penetrated, arrows and quiver in the back, deer and stags are the animals most closely associated with her. In between=associates with females, nymphs (lives in groups, not alone like hestia: not attracted (loosely) to men. Involved with hunting (a male activity: she"s a paradox, shuns marriage, no procreation, but does a lot of hunting. Pictures: artemis with bow and arrows, red-figure amphora, 5h c. bce. Louvre, paris: deer-drawn chariot of artemis, italian red-figure krater, 5th c. bce. Louvre, paris: deer, skin not exposed, actaeon, sculpture, john manship, 20th c. american, north carolina museum of art. Scotland: a follower of artemis, virgin nymph, zeus fell in love with her.
