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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.
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.)
You're right, it's Hercules. Google "Farnese Hercules" to see another clean shaven version.
ReplyDeleteThis may have been a clean-shaven emperor done up to flatter him as Hercules.
ReplyDeleteThey did do that sort of thing.
DeleteYouthful Hercules. Roman Flavian period from Metropolitan Museum in NY.
ReplyDeleteThanks. You're good!
DeleteMany Roman male statues have the dick broken off.
ReplyDeleteThere 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.)
There definitely was some vandalism, but occasionally they got damaged just in the course of being millennia old.
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