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Mulieris famam, non formam,
vulgatam esse oportere.
A woman’s reputation, not her beauty, should be known to the world.
dialogismus.
A dialogue.
Alma Venus quaenam haec facies, quid denotat illa
Testudo, molli quam pede diva premis?
Me sic effinxit Phidias,[1] sexumque referri
Foemineum, nostra iussit ab effigie.
Quodque manere domi, & tacitas decet esse puellas,
Supposuit pedibus talia signa meis.
Kindly Venus, what form is this, what does that tortoise mean, on which, o goddess, your soft feet rest? Phidias fashioned me like this. He intended the female sex to be represented by this image of me. Girls should stay at home and keep silence, and so he put such symbols under my feet.
1. Phidias’ statue of Aphrodite with one foot on a tortoise, set up at Elis, is mentioned by Pausanias, Periegesis 6.25.1. The tortoise is a symbol of ideal female domesticity, as it keeps silent and never leaves its house see Plutarch Coniugalia praecepta 32 (Mor. 142).
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- (story of) Venus (Aphrodite) [92C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman [31D15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals (+ wings of an animal) [25F(+342)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding something) [31A2515(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ holding something) [31A2511(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2512(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Venus: turtle [92C48(TURTLE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being) [31D11221(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ women's clothes) [41D211(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fingers spread out (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A25512(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gripping someone by the arm [31A2541] Search | Browse Iconclass
- helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting): lance [45C14(LANCE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hitting at something [31A2743] Search | Browse Iconclass
- housewife [42F10] Search | Browse Iconclass
- kinds of non-precious stone [25D12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- leaning forward [31A2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- male persons from classical history (with NAME) non-aggressive activities of person from classical history [98B(PHIDIAS)5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mask, mascaron ~ ornament [48A98211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other - AA - female human figure (+ standing) [31AA2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- open door [41A3211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other rooms [41A25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other specific aspects of Venus (with NAME) [92C473(DOMESTICA)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture [48C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- protective weapons: shield [45C19(SHIELD)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- sculptor at work (+ in workshop or studio) [48C21(+11)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sculptor at work (+ stone ~ arts) [48C21(+62)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shelves, rack, sideboard [41A712] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tools, implements of sculptor (with NAME) [48C25(CHISEL)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tools, implements of sculptor: mallet [48C25(MALLET)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tortoises, turtles (+ animal(s) being wounded) [25F44(+62)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something - AA - female human figure [31AA2726] Search | Browse Iconclass
- window [41A33] Search | Browse Iconclass
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