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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological ... For instance, according to Platt, Greek men would scent their bodies before they gathered to drink at the symposium, a ...
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
For example, the statue "Laocoön and his Sons ... the visual image of the mythical Aryan race with Greek statues, for instance by featuring men with finely sculpted torsos.