Greek Statues

These pieces are made of hydrostone, a gypsum compound suitable for
indoor or outdoor placement.

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Aphrodite of Melos

G-068SM Aphrodite of Melos

Size: 20" H (50cm)
Type: Statue on marble base
Material: Hydrostone
Finish: Antique stone finish
Price: $178 SOLD OUT

Louvre Museum, Paris. 200 B.C.

Her graceful body symbolizes an ideal of beauty that many long for but none attain. The French named her the Venus of Milo. In 1820 a peasant named Yorgos found her broken body in an underground cavern on the Aegean island of Melos. Later she was taken out of Greece under unclear circumstances to be taken to Paris where she was to be admired by the millions of visitors to that country's great museum-the Louvre! Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love, identified in Rome with Venus. Although Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of Zeus and Dion, the more popular view was that she was conceived in the foam of the ocean from the seed of Uranus. Dropped there when he was castrated, her name meaning "foam-born". Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but she loved Ares and she was known for her many love affairs, notably with Adonis and Anchises.

Bust of Aphrodite

G-017S Bust of Aphrodite

Size: 9" H (23cm)
Type: Statue
Material: Bonded Marble
Finish: Antique marble finish
Price: $40

Parthenon Horse

G-012SM Parthenon Horse

Size: 8" H (20cm)
Type: Statue on marble base
Material: Hydrostone
Finish: Antique stone finish
Price: $66 SOLD OUT

Parthenon Temple, Athens. 465 B.C.

Horses were an integral part of life in ancient Greece. They played an active role in warfare, transportation and in the games such as the Panathenaic Games in Athens with its huge contingent of cavalry riders. Athenian enthusiasm for the horse was clearly expressed in the many civic buildings and temples that were adorned with paintings and sculptures of riders and battle scenes showing cavalry such as in the Parthenon friezes where this wonderful horse head originates. Two deities, Poseidon and Athena, together served as protectors of horses and patrons of horsemanship and equestrian activities. Athena, Patron Goddess of Athens, was credited with the invention of the bridle and the use of chariots. The horse was a symbol of prestige, wealth and status. Social rank has often been defined by the ability to own and maintain a horse. The Aristocratic families that ruled Athens during the 6th century B.C. often took pride in their nobility by starting or ending their name with the word hippos (horse). The aristocracy bred and raced horses from very early times and it seems that chariot racing was the preferred form of competition and maybe the foundation of the Olympic Games

Caryatid Column

G-011S Caryatid Column

Size: 26" H (66cm)
Type: Statue
Material: Hydrostone
Finish: Antique stone finish
Price: $178 SOLD OUT

The Acropolis, Athens. 465 B.C.

Athena

G-062SM Athena

Size: 10.5" H (27cm)
Type: Statue on marble base
Material: Hydrostone
Finish: Antique stone finish
Price: $66 SOLD OUT

Athena was the Greek Goddess of wisdom and women's crafts. She was also a defender against evil and a warrior Goddess par excellence. She was the daughter of Zeus and Metis. When Metis became pregnant, Gaia and Uranus told Zeus that after giving birth to a daughter, she would then have a son by Zeus who would later dethrone him. On Gaia's advice, Zeus swallowed Metis. When the time came for the child to be born, Zeus was afflicted with a dreadful headache and sought the help of Hephaestus who split his skull with a bronze axe to relieve the pain. A girl in full armour sprang forth from his head: It was Athena. Athena's attributes were the spear, the helmet and the Aegis (a goat-skin shield). She attached the Gorgon's head which Perseus had given her to her shield, and this turned to stone every living thing that looked at it.

Hecate Triple Goddess

G-089S Hecate Triple Goddess

Size: 10.5" H (27cm)
Type: Statue
Material: Hydrostone
Finish: Bronze finish
Price: $58 SOLD OUT

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hecate originally derived from the Egyptian midwife Goddess Hekat. In Greece, Hecate was one of the many names for the original feminine trinity ruling Heaven, Earth and the Underworld. Greeks tended to emphasize her crone or underworld aspect. Hecate was called "Most lovely one", a title of the moon. She was associated with the moon in all three of her aspects. Some said she was Hecate Selene, the Moon in Heaven; Artemis the Huntress on Earth and Persephone the Destroyer in the Underworld. Sometimes she was part of the Queen of Heaven Trinity: Hebe the Virgin, Hera the Mother and Hecate the Crone.

Greek Geometric Horse Statue

GRE02 Greek Geometric Horse Statue

Size: 6.5" H
Type: Statue
Material: Resin
Finish: Metal finish
Price: $48

Around 900 BC a change in style took place in ancient Greek art. Both in decorations and in the art of sculpting geometric patterns emerged, which were very different from the pre-Hellenic style which was customary at the time. Painters began to decorate their pottery with stylized, sketched silhouettes, a style which soon was adopted by sculptors. The horse was suitable for this innovative geometric simplification. Every bronze foundry on the Greek continent developed their own variations, but the "pig's snout", the pointed ears and the triangular notches in the base of the sculpture remained characteristic. Sometimes the horses served as an ornament on vases, but usually they were sculptures on their own merit, which were often used as memorial statuettes.

Greek reproduction of a geometric horse. Made from resin, metal finish, and measures 6.5"H x 6.2"W x 1.75"D. Part of the Parastone Mouseion 3D Collection of museum replicas.

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