I don’t think you’re right, but I love your headcannon of Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists making the dicks small to emulate the ancient Greeks’ zealously pointing out that their sculpture was not of horses, goats or sheep 😄
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feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months agoMaybe, but again - were the Ancient Greeks really influenced by that? Probably more from observing the behaviour (and anatomy) of horses and certain livestock.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean that’s likely where the idea of massive throbbing boners being bestial and whatnot came from. The horse’s handbrake. You ever seen one of those? And they really are violent rapists, hence the myth of the centaurs.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
No, they weren’t. The “barbarians” they despised were all of their neighbors. That is what barbarian originally meant, not Greek.