The Comparing Betweem Venus Of Milos And Venus Of Sandro Botticelli

This essay will examine the parallel ideas behind the Venus de Milos and trhe birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Venus de Milos is an ancient Greek statue, carved in marble 150 BCE and the Louvre Museum in Paris houses it. It is a depiction of the goddess Aphrodite. Though its features seem classical, it is a late Hellenistic work, created at a time when Greek culture as a whole was in decline. The painting the Birth of Venus is the work of the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli and it dates around 1482 ACE. The idea and ideal of Venus inspire the artists to create masterpieces. One can talk about idolatry-the worship of an image, the love with the classical ideal, as the power that inspire both Botticelli and the sculptor of Venus de Milos. the idea of venus maybe an allegory: venus may be the personification of human beauty and superiority over the nature. But who was Venus, or better, who was Aphrodite, as the goddess of love is called with her Greek name? Aphrodite, in Greek mythology, is the goddess of love and beauty and the counterpart of the Roman goddess Venus. In a Homeric legend, mentioned in the Iliad, she is said to be the daughter of Zeus and D

ione, one of Zeus's consorts. In the Theogony of Hesiod, she is described as having sprung from the foam of the sea, and etymologically her name may mean "foam-risen." According to Homer, Aphrodite is the wife of Hephaestus, the lame and ugly god of fire. Her lovers include Ares, god of war, who in later mythology was represented as her husband. She was the rival of Persephone, queen of the underworld, for the love of the beautiful Greek youth Adonis. Perhaps the most famous legend about Aphrodite concerns the cause of the Trojan War. Eris, the personification of discord-the only goddess not invited to the wedding of King Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis-resentfully tossed into the banquet hall a golden apple on which were inscribed the words "for the fairest." When Zeus refused to judge between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, the three goddesses who claimed the apple, they asked Paris, prince of Troy, to make the award. Each goddess offered Paris a bribe: Hera, that he would be a powerful ruler; Athena, that he would achieve great military fame; and Aphrodite, that he should have the fairest woman in the world. Paris declared Aphrodite the fairest and chose as his prize Helen of Troy, the wife of the Greek king Menelaus. Paris's abduction of Helen led to the Trojan War. Probably of Near Eastern origin, Aphrodite was identified in early Greek religious belief with the Phoenician goddess Astarte and was known under a variety of cult titles, including Aphrodite Urania, queen of the heavens, and Aphrodite Pandemos, goddess of the whole people. Venus de Milo, which means Aphrodite of Milos, it was found on the Greek island of Milos in 1820. Although it is of a grandiose style that recalls the Classical Period, the Venus de Milo is from the late Hellenistic Age ( ). Beside it stood a herma (stone pillar) on which the arm of the goddess rested. On the base of the herma was inscribed the signature of an artist, Alexandros, or Agesandros, from Antioch on the Meander. By this signature the work can be dated from 150 BC to 100 BC. A hand holding an apple was also found on Milos, and this may have been

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