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Friday, January 7, 2022

Clean shaven Hercules


The lion skin makes me think "Hercules," but I don't 
recall having seen a clean shaven version of that hero.

 

7 comments:

  1. You're right, it's Hercules. Google "Farnese Hercules" to see another clean shaven version.

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  2. This may have been a clean-shaven emperor done up to flatter him as Hercules.

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  3. Youthful Hercules. Roman Flavian period from Metropolitan Museum in NY.

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  4. Many Roman male statues have the dick broken off.
    There must have been a censorship campaign at some point, to break off the erect phallus on statues.
    (If the dick hung down limply, they couldn't have sculpted such bas detail be hind them.)

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    1. There definitely was some vandalism, but occasionally they got damaged just in the course of being millennia old.

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