Boise State Public Radio3d
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
Smithsonian Magazine9d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts ... Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People "anointed her with precious unguents" and "crowned her with chaplets and flowers," Cicero ...
Yahoo News UK11d
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, according to information published on the "Gods in Color" website, "Unsuitable research methods and diverging understandings of ancient written ...
Gizmodo10d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different ... (106–43 BCE), who described a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis in the city of Segesta. He writes that women “anointed ...