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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 413941, member: 5833"]He's a swan for Leda, a bull for Europa, a shower of gold that falls into the lap of Danae even though she's locked in a tower. Callisto was one of the chaste followers of the Artemis. Zeus gets at her by taking on the likeness of the goddess. Now & then I see porcelain miniatures of the seduction of Callisto.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]144283[/ATTACH] </p><p>The presence of Cupid in the scene is the tip off that they're not being just friendly.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a phrase in a book from the 1950s that meant something different to the author, but got taken up by the public as expressing the Greek attitude: polymorphously perverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 413941, member: 5833"]He's a swan for Leda, a bull for Europa, a shower of gold that falls into the lap of Danae even though she's locked in a tower. Callisto was one of the chaste followers of the Artemis. Zeus gets at her by taking on the likeness of the goddess. Now & then I see porcelain miniatures of the seduction of Callisto. [ATTACH=full]144283[/ATTACH] The presence of Cupid in the scene is the tip off that they're not being just friendly. There was a phrase in a book from the 1950s that meant something different to the author, but got taken up by the public as expressing the Greek attitude: polymorphously perverse.[/QUOTE]
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