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Parthenon

             Six stately young women stand like sentinels on a marble parapet atop the Athenian Acropolis. They are gazing at the Parthenon, the great temple of Athena that, even in its present ruin, is one of the marvels of the world. Casual and relaxed, the women are balancing a heavy stone roof on their heads. It is a remarkable display of female power: voluptuous curves combined with massive, muscular strength.
Since the Roman era, columns shaped like women have been called caryatids. The word comes from the Spartan city of Caryae, where young women did a ring dance around an open-air statue of the goddess Artemis, locally identified with a walnut tree. Antiquity’s most famous caryatids were these six of the Acropolis.  
  By:Camille Paglia

Seen in Explore Jan 17, 2018
   

Taken on: August 24, 2017

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Camera: Nikon D600, f/3.2, 1/2500 sec, 60mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D600
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	1/2500 sec
Focal Length:	60mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.8 (Windows)
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