lo or Callisto (?), known as the ‘Barberini Supplicant Marble The imploring figure is seated on the edge of a wall. A fragment of the original that inspired this copy, recently discovered on the Acropolis in Athens, has allowed the figure to be identified: it is either lo or Callisto, two of Zeus’s lovers, depicted around 400 BC by the sculptor Deinomenes of Argos on the walls surrounding the altar of Zeus Polieus east of the Parthenon. The two young women had to flee the wrath of Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, who turned lo into a cow and Callisto a bear.
Aphrodite, goddess of love, of the ‘Venus Genetrix’ type This statue is part of an extensive series of ancient copies based on a very famous original (now lost) from around 400 BC, attributed to the sculptor Kallimachos, Aphrodite (Venus to the Romans) holds an apple in her left hand, the prize awarded to the most beautiful goddess by Paris, alrojan prince.
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