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