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Photograph of Gloria Swanson imitates Venus de Milo.

Discussed in depth by Michael Williams, Film, Stardom, Myth and Classicism: the rise of Hollywood's gods (Palgrave Macmillan: New York 2013), 1-2454 - 61.

cf. Gloria Swanson also as Pygmalion's Galatea, also discussed by Williams, op cit.

Black and white photo of Gloria Swanson in an ornate gown next to a classical statue, part of a "Neilson's Chocolate Bars" card

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.