Does the Statue of Liberty have something to do with the Roman Goddess of Liberty ?

Question

Haifa : Get a Life , it's having a happy life what makes me happy , not an imaginary being you betch

Answer 1

Yep.

from wikipedia

The classical appearance (Roman stola, sandals, facial expression) derives from Libertas, ancient Rome's goddess of freedom from slavery, oppression, and tyranny.

Answer 2

The appearance does in fact derive from Libertas, the Roman god of freedom from slavery.

See the SYMBOLISM section of the wikipedia entry.

Answer 3

No.

The statue is called "Liberty, lighting the world with the torch of Reason". (She has her back turned to the United States, which should explain a lot).

Her appearance is based on the Colossus of Rhodos, which was a depiction of Phoebus Apollo .

Her actual features are based on a French girl of the age whose name escapes me.

Answer 4

The statute of Liberty has some religious connection but as for Liberty it is based on the ancient Roman goddess Libertas, ancient Rome's goddess of freedom from slavery, oppression, and tyranny. . As you may know the statue was a gift from the prime minister of France in 1886. It represents and is a collection of symbols and meanings. The goddess liberty was chosen because the people of France see Lady Liberty as the national symbol for Liberty and thought it was appropriate for the nation that was founded under that key principle. The statue is also connected to Joan of Arc, who brought "light" to the French people, hence the use of the torch. The Face of the statue is modeled after the designers mother and is meant to symbolize the average persons inalienable right to freedom. As opposed to using a idealistic woman's face. Her raised right foot is on the move. This symbol of Liberty and Freedom is not standing still or at attention in the harbor, it is moving forward, as her left foot tramples broken shackles at her feet, in symbolism of the United States' wish to be free from oppression and tyranny.The seven spikes on the crown represent the Seven Seas and seven continents.  The tablet in her hand represents knowledge and shows the date of the United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.The general appearance of the statue’s head approximates the Greek Sun-god Apollo or Helios as preserved on an ancient marble tablet (today in the Archaeological Museum of Corinth, Corinth, Greece) - Apollo was represented as a solar deity, dressed in a similar robe and having on its head a "radiate crown" with the seven spiked rays of the Helios-Apollo's sun rays, like the Statue's nimbus or halo. The ancient Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a statue of Helios with a radiate crown. The Colossus is referred to in the 1883 sonnet The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. Lazarus' poem was later engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903.

Steve Macias

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