Historical Babes thread

[visu]

How do we know that this is a representation of female beauty?
Maybe the creator was trying to mock his stepmother and made a statue of her.

[b etor]

Originally posted by self biased
so the question remains is how did a pic of tubgirl get on there instead of what was intended, mmm?

the site does not allow hotlinking. if you do, that picture shows up. Drogue informed me of this. it showed up on my computer as a soap box.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Well, maybe in the far future our distant descendants will look back at whatever battered fragments of the interweb remain, and conclude that the 21st cebtury's ideal representation of female beauty was Tubgirl.

Originally posted by CrONoS
More seriously;

@Lazarus. ( maybe I should call you; Ron Jeremy )

25 000 years ago... it's impressive! Does it was made before agriculture was practicing?

Yes- it dates back to the hunter/gatherer times. In fact, there may even have still been isolated communities of Neanderthals around at the time.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Here's a famous statue in the Louvre. It's a Roman copy of an ancient Greek statue from the 5th century BC, and typifies the Classical ideal of female beauty. Notice the glorious sweeping lines through the hips, buttocks and thighs- this was what the Greeks and Romans wanted to see.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Now here's another view of the same statue, from the front this time.



Notice anything rather unexpected?

[CrONoS]

what kind of clitoris is that???

[CrONoS]

Really, do we know why she got a penis?

[b etor]

obviously she was really useful for anyone who needed her.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by CrONoS
Really, do we know why she got a penis?

The Greeks didn't like *****

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

The Greeks liked making statues of hermaphrodites. They had rather different views on sexuality compared to our rigid categorisation in modern times, and this beautiful woman with meat and 2 vegetables would have posed any number of interesting possibilities.

[BeBMan]

This is probably the historical babe:



From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti

Nefertiti (the beauty that has come, whose nickname was also 'Titi') was the Great Royal Wife (or chief consort/wife) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten). She was the mother-in-law and probable stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun

(...)

She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Altes Museum, shown to the right. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt. It was attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, and was found in his workshop. The bust itself is notable for exemplifying the understanding Ancient Egyptians had regarding realistic facial proportions.

What the article doesn't say is that the bust being in Berlin (found in Egypt 1912 by a German archaeologist) is a source of a long dispute between Germany and Egypt, which demands to get it back.

[Tattila the Hun]

How dare they demand stolen stuff back...


Anyways, why do they call it bust, when it doesn't include her boobs?

[BeBMan]

Bah, "officially" there was an agreement about how to deal with the findings, and finally it was all divided into one part that remained in Egypt, the other part, incl. this one, went to Germany, so it's not considered stolen.

[LordShiva]

Teh Indus Valley civilisation's Mother Goddess:

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by BeBro
This is probably the historical babe:

I could introduce you to someone who swears that he has the missing eye from that bust- he claims his journalist father was taken into a newly excavated tomb where the eye was, and the guide picked it out of some rubble and gave it to him.

When I pointed out that his story was utter cack on many, many levels, he went screaming bonkers and tried to get me banned from the forum for libel. It was hilarious.