Gender Differences In Ancient Greek Art

The differences between the statues is that Visual Source 3.1 message out “obey is you don’t want to get crush by me” while this one spoken out authority in a calmly way. These statues convey that Athenian tyrant don’t have to use force against their people. Unlike the Persian where they have to handcuffed their people. In Athens, the leader/ruler gets support naturally from their people. They ruled alone with no leading generals like what Darius had.

In the article “Out of the closet and into the gym” Duncan tries to explain the important of a masculine image to the gay society. In other to explain it he interviews four gay men and ask them about their image and body. The men explained that working out and gaining muscle is a type of acceptance into the gay community. The

The Greeks, as other civilizations, used art to portray each stage their society was going through at certain periods of time. So, how did the ancient greeks portrayed gender roles and social statutes through art? I will prove that through the development of art, the ancient greeks, in specific the Minoans demonstrated the social status and gender roles of their inhabitants, as well as the beginning of the creation of their history.

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Visual representations are understood through visual perceptual skills, which is the ability to interpret the information and construct meaning out if it (Advanced Vision Therapy Center, n.d.). In Ancient Greece, only elites could afford art, therefore Greek visual representations portrayed the elites’ ideology. It is a cycle of reinforcement where social and cultural values were represented through art works that played a major role in Greeks’ everyday life. The constant appearance of these values in each Greeks’ visual perception creates a reflection that further strengthens such values. One of the major sociocultural values was the enforcement of gender roles where women were inferior and dangerous to men due to their sexuality. A

In the world of Ancient Greece, a large array of deities were worshipped. Each god had their own forms of identification in which they used to express themselves. This includes things such as personality, style, sexuality, and many other things. One of these forms of expression was gender. The Greeks seemed to focus more on the two typical genders, which are male and female. Some Greek gods seemed to play into certain gender roles, but others portrayed traits of the opposite sex. In this paper, I will be analysing the possibility that the Greeks believed the female and male genders were closely connected and that is why many of the gods are described with blended aspects of gender.

In our culture, men and women are expected to act in certain ways during a sexual encounter, based on their gender. During a sexual encounter, men are expected to be dominant and active, while women are expected to be submissive and passive. The existence of gender roles has been a constant theme throughout humanity. In Ancient Greece, sexual gender roles that resemble modern sexual gender roles existed, but were not a 1:1 comparison with what we have today.

There are ads everywhere showing us what the perfect human should look like. They are in magazines, books and television shows. Most of these ads show unrealistic body standards. Models show that people should be tall and skinny, and actors are praised for looking a certain way. There are many things out there that tells an individual how they should look. These unrealistic body standards can have grave consequences. It can affect the way people see and feel about themselves. It can also affect what they do to their bodies and how they spend their money.

We already know so much about female body image, as it has been highlighted much more in the media, but the issue is just as visible and existent for men. However, the book is almost 15 years old, so it does not include the evolution of male body image, this century so far, which would be very interesting to read. Since the 90s, we have seen the Internet really coming to life, social media and an increasing level of aggressiveness in advertising aimed towards men, a negative evolution that keeps

Self-esteem plays a big part of body image. People have to feel good about themselves and be comfortable in their own skin to be happy. In today's world, it feels almost impossible to be happy, this generation is all about the media which makes having self-esteem 10x harder. Millions of pictures are posted of expectations of how women should look. In an article written by Pavica Sheldon, she states that ”The average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds, whereas the average female model portrayed in the media is 5’11 and 120 pounds”. Women are placed into a box telling them they have to look a certain way and if they don't they're simply not good enough. Besides being put into a category women numerously get called nasty names like slut or whore if they show too much. Piggy and fatty if they're overweight. Or “stick” if she's too skinny. Nothing is ever good enough is what it feels like. For example, Kylie Jenner, if you grew up watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” you know how she looked before all the plastic surgery she got done, she now looks completely different. An account wrote, “What are they giving Kylie?” and someone quoted the tweet and said plastic. So even if women try to fix their imperfections they still get shamed down for it by calling them fake.

-The Greeks had very different views of the artist. On one side, they viewed the artist as a demigod, and by doing this, they neglected to criticize any of the artist's work. On the other side the artist was viewed as an impostor, whose art was worth nothing. Both of these ideas are detrimental in many ways, and both are missing the core of an artist. The foundation of an artist lies in Christ, and the Greeks missed out on that.

1. Women in Ancient Greece Mention ancient Greece to a friend and they may think of democracy, the Olympic games or the Spartan army. However, men created many of the sources that tell us about these institutions and developments; men were also the intended audience (Scott, 2009). But the ancient Greeks still felt a female presence in many aspects of their culture, including female gods, characters in poetry and folklore, and of course in everyday life. Women in the city of Sparta were allowed to own land, and one of the Spartan kings’ sisters even entered a chariot team in the Olympic games of 396 and 392 BCE (Scott 38).

Young girls in middle-high school look in the mirror to analyze, critique and judge the growing woman that they see in the mirror. Overall, they seem to dislike what they see, Most think “my body is not perfect. ”. That brings the question of what exactly a perfect body is?

The Emergence of Greek artwork dates back to the third millennium where the Statuette of a Woman is found and develops through the 300 b.c. The arrival of Greek art work began a dichotomy of Greek artist which developed through the ideas of the Greek view of the gods and their myths. This split caused Greek citizens to see artists as either demi gods beyond reproach or imposters that needed to be carefully controlled and could not be trusted. It also caused Greeks to view art as either superior or inferior to them but never equal to them. This dichotomy was never reconciled during the era of Greek artwork, and can only be reconciled through a Biblical view of an artist and his or her work.

Thesis: The purpose of my speech is to convince you that the perfect body image shown on the media is unrealistic, therefore we shouldn’t praise it.