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could you draw the Charity Aglaea?
Aglaea, goddess of glory and beauty.
Second wife of Hephaestus.
One thing that I find funny is how lots of artists depict the Greek Goddesses as skinny/thin, when the majority of them are described as having curvaceous figures.
Hera is "Zeus' buxom wife".
Aglaea is "Hephaestus' buxom wife".
Ariadne is "Dionysus' buxom wife".
Persephone is described by Homer as being "buxom" and "trim-ankled" (which basically means that she had shapely legs) before her kidnapping.
Aphrodite was thick too.
The main reason why Artemis punished Aura was because she commented on her appearance, claiming that her breasts look like the ones of a pregnant woman, and that she looks more like a virgin than her.
Athena would most likely have an athletic/slightly muscular figure rather than a fragile one.
So seeing most of them depicted as skinny when back in the Ancient Greece there were different Beauty Standards is quite hilarious.
Aglaea starting to flirt with Hephaestus right after he divorced Aphrodite: