07.17.07 5:00 AM CDT
• Girls
• Jamie Malanowski
Spent a glorious Sunday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Greek and Roman Sculpture Galleries. The work is amazing, and the presentation is spectacular. And while this fragment called "The Three Graces" is hardly the most awesome piece in the collection, the Playboy editor in me found it delightful.
In Greek mythology, the three graces (or Charites), are, from youngest to oldest: Aglaea, who represents Beauty; Euphrosyne, who represents Mirth; and Thalia, who represents Good Cheer. Together they are the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. How nice it was to see this antecedent of the Playboy spirit, reaching out across the ages.
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There's something to be said for a classical education!
Oh yes! And don't forget the buxom and jealous Hera, the most beautiful Aphrodite and of course the Olympian pilatesbod of (hopefully) switch hitter Artemis.
There were are darker counterpart to The Graces and The were The Fates; Clotho who spun the thread of life, Lachesis whom measured the thread and Atropos whom cut it. No one was above tyhem, not even their father Zeus....I'll stick with the Grace actually!!
(Another Thalia was the muse of Comedy)
i used to be that psycho little girl in the 4th grade who could name over 500 Greek Mythological characters and situations so thsi was fun to read--THANKS!