zapster
The characters in this painting, such as Zephyr and the nymph Hora, are from Greek myth, as is Venus herself.
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The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)
Use of Greek myth in The Birth of Venus
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In Hellenistic culture, the clamshell was symbolic of a woman's vagina.