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Sunday, September 04, 2022
Not the Girl Next Door
Kenneth Dover, The Greeks, 3rd ed. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), p. 61:
Confronted with a female figure in stone, if she has sixteen tits and a crocodile's head, we know she's not the girl next door; but many a goddess depicted by a Greek sculpture could be just that.