| In order to get the idea of women's role in | | | | sex objects. But the Greeks reduced such view |
| Ancient Greece it will be the best to review the | | | | putting the heads on. In this regard it is also very |
| way they where portrayed in art. Ordinary Greek | | | | interesting to pay attention to the portrayals of |
| women very often had the portrayals of | | | | the Amazons. An Amazon can not be a sex |
| goddesses and sometimes even mythological | | | | object when it concerns its role as an enemy of |
| creatures. Women as well as men were displayed | | | | the state. But when we think about the Amazons |
| as sex objects. For instance statues of Aphrodite | | | | as about the forceful superiority of women then |
| fell under this peculiarity. At the same time some | | | | surely they are sex objects. But actually the |
| people were identified with their name, and no | | | | subject of a great debate is what an Amazon |
| doubt it diminished their object status. While | | | | woman personifies. The goddess Athena seemed |
| goddesses were depicted with their attributes and | | | | to have a great power over men. It might be a |
| symbols, it reduced their object status as well. | | | | reflection of time when women were thought to |
| There were much less portrayals of nude women | | | | be the most important deities. To study archaic |
| than men before the sculpture of the nude | | | | Greek Art we have to depend more on the |
| Aphrodite of Cnidos was created by Praxiteles. | | | | myths and archeology. But we may maintain the |
| After him more and more women's images were | | | | fact that women played if not the most then not |
| shown as sex objects. Nowadays Greek statues | | | | the least important role in it. The investigation of |
| of nude women are displayed without heads and | | | | women in Greek Art is priceless. |
| it does not decrease our view of the statues as | | | | |