I need help with a history project?

Question

So in my Prehistoric History class we have to choose a subject and make some sort of interesting project along with a 5-7 page research paper. i think i want my subject to be something about Aphrodiate teh Goddess of Love. Does anyone have any creative ideas?? im in an art school

Answer 1

Well - you're in a prehistory class.  Start with the Venus of Willendorf.  Go from a fertility symbol like that small statuette and move to other forms of the Goddess.  There are "Venus" figurines in every culture.  Can you make a general statement about these love goddesses in every culture and then develop a statement about Aphrodite?  Go through her earliest Greek forms and then move to the Medieval ideas or the Renaissance images?  Or even something very modern??  I think this art has gone full circle.  Many of the earliest figurines are very abstract / slivers, curves, barely human.  And now, modern sculpture is very, very similar to what the ancients came up with.

Good Luck!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Wi...

http://donsmaps.com/venus.html

http://archaeology.about.com/od/artandar...

Answer 2

Aside from her arising from the waves on the shell?  I'm sorry I can't help you, maybe someone in Religion and Spirituality could help you, there are people who still worship the Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses

Answer 3

You could find a way to incorporate some of her signs into a painting. Let's see... i think her birds were the dove and the sparrow, I think a scepter was one of her signs to. You're best bet would be to look up a myth and draw draw a scene from that. Or, you could just make her the way you think she should be. it's art and she's a myth they're both very flexible subjects.   ( ;

Answer 4

Pair Aphroditiae with many of the other Gods.....like Zeus, etc, etc....and see how her sexuality mixes or fails in a   "mock marriage" with them.

Answer 5

I think you could do something interesting about the significance of Love being born from the blood of Uranus dripping onto the sea when his son, Cronos, castrates him, but that might be a little too weird for you or for your teachers.