Aphrodite Funky Butt

Trip Start Sep 07, 2008
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Trip End Dec 09, 2008


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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Indy was in fine form today in Ancient Greek Monuments class. Perhaps he was in such a good mood because the students did well on their second quiz. Or maybe he was happy about the topic of today's lecture, naked people in ancient Greek sculpture. In illustrating how sculptors could carve marble so finely that the dresses of the women seemed transparent, he titled the slides "wet t-shirt contest." Then the sculptures progressed to one breast covered and one exposed as in Amazon costume, which he titled "wardrobe malfunction."

Then finally the sculptors got away with depicting totally nude women. He showed us some slides of Aphrodite in various poses, including the famous Aphrodite Kallipygos, where she's looking over her shoulder at her own exposed rump. "The title of this statue," Indy said archly, "could be translated as Aphrodite Funky Butt." Oh dear Aphrodite Funky Butt
Aphrodite Funky Butt
 . I'm on a quest to use the phrase "Aphrodite Funky Butt" in one of my own classes some day.

Scout, Papia, and Traveling Pants came over after class to do laundry and discuss Indy's hilarious lecture, which also included the line, "The Getty Museum has more illegally looted Greek vases than you could throw dead dogs at." I invested a few hours working with the three young women on their final papers for persuasion and rhetorical criticism classes. The dining room table was full of laptops.

For dinner, Scout and Papia made Chop. It was supposed to be Chop Suey, but Scout forgot the soy sauce, so it was just Chop.
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