2006-09-18 20:33:20 · 18 answers · asked by shaffy 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
Throughout history, liberty has been depicted as a woman.
The Roman Republic built a temple to Libertas, the Goddess of Liberty, on Aventine Hill, and her face appeared on the denarius silver coin -- according to the Bible, the denarius was a day's pay for a laborer. Historian Nancy Jo Fox explained, "the Goddess of Liberty appeared in art as a robed female holding a scepter, indicating sovereignty over herself, with a liberty-loving cat at her feet alongside a broken jug (shattered symbol of confinement) and crowned by Phrygian cap, the pilleus libertatis, bestowed upon slaves when granted freedom."
2006-09-18 20:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After seeing your pic the French Government decided to present the statue of liberty in a women shape to USA, because they couldn't find any thing more beautyful then you.
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2006-09-19 03:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would you have felt about having a super huge statue of a man with boobs in a dress as the first thing people see when entering your great nation?
Exactly...it had to be a woman!
2006-09-19 05:23:43 · answer #3 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I think this is important, but would you really be impressed with a giant statue of a man? The answer is NO! Any way you choose to look at it men aren't all that impressive to see, much less have a giant statue of
2006-09-19 06:39:59 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Reverend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
woman symbolically represent fertility, birth, hope, divine, heaven/angellic, domestic, peace, etc. Just like pictures of the westward movement among others, women are seen leading through the black smoke, and trailing behind is development.
2006-09-19 04:14:58 · answer #5 · answered by curly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They wanted to make a gigantic oxymoron, of course ...a gigantic woman setting a man free ...when has that ever been seen :-)
Honey do the dishes, honey clean up the garage, honey fix the dishwasher... :-)
2006-09-19 05:16:11 · answer #6 · answered by p.g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the FRench. They made it was a gift remember? It probably has to do with "giving birth" to a nation.
2006-09-19 03:35:58 · answer #7 · answered by double v 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The French built it,what does that say?
2006-09-19 04:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the French, it was a gift to us from them.
2006-09-19 03:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
why the persons who go to the war are men?
2006-09-19 03:36:31 · answer #10 · answered by **** if i know 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋