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Ancient Pornography?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

I finally went to the Greek masterpieces exhibition at the national museum with Seeming and Aini. Once again we flashed our matric card and managed to get in for free - which is why we keep going to the museum this year. I feel so cultured!

One of the first few exhibits you see when you first enter the gallery

Whoo a lion - it's very Singapore haha

An ancient mirror. There's no way the women back then could fit this huge, heavy mirror into their handbag

An athelete with a discus. Did they exercise naked back then? Running must have been uncomfortable

Ancient art or ancient pornography? What's that between his left arm?

There's a reflection of me taking this picture! Perhaps I should suggest to the museum to use non-reflective glass

I love this! It looks like the woman is trying to push the huge stone onto the guy's head

I couldn't resist! I had to take a picture of his butt (previously on my heritage trail I took a picture of a peacock's butt)

And now for the front view (with Aini censoring some parts)
If I remember correctly this is a statue of aphrodite's husband

It's Aphrodite (Venus) - the Greek goddess of love
(Actually when I first looked at the top half, I thought it was a guy)

Eros - the Greek god of love

Another image of Venus.

Actually I was expecting to see more Greek pieces. Guess I have to go to the Louvre to see more. I want to study ancient Greek or ancient Roman history! They're so interesting. Haiz too bad such modules are not offered in my school. At least studying ancient China was fun :)

-Sign Off @ 6:19 PM :)