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Rhodes - The Crouching Venus

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A postally unused postcard that was published by A. Pachos of Rhodes. The card has a divided back.

The Crouching Venus

The concept of a naked, crouching Venus was a popular theme for statuary in in the Graeco-Roman world, and many examples have survived. They all show the goddess bathing or about to wash.

The small marble Crouching Venus of the 1st. century BCE was discovered in Rhodes and conserved in the Rhodes Archaeological Museum.

It is a variant of the crouching pose in which – instead of attempting to cover up modestly as in other examples – Venus lifts her hair in her fingers to dry it, and looks out at the viewer while openly displaying her breasts.

The statue is sometimes known as the Crouching Aphrodite of Rhodes.

But why associate the goddess of love with bathing and water? According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Aphrodite was born when the Titans, led by Cronus, cut off their father Uranus’ genitals and cast them into the sea. 

Out of the foam arose a beautiful young women, fully grown, who stepped ashore on either the island of Cythera or Cyprus. The first thing she did was to dry herself, for example by rinsing or wringing out her hair as in the statue from Rhodes.

Taken on: September 27, 2023

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