Anasyrma
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Anasyrma, also called anasyrmos, is the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt. It is used in connection with certain religious rituals, eroticism, and lewd jokes. The term is used in describing corresp
Copy of a Hellenistic Aphrodite Kallipygos at The Hermitage in St. Petersburg
Hermaphrodite anasyromenos sketch by Peter Paul Rubens
La Fontaine's "The Devil of Pope-Fig Island", illustrated by Charles Eisen (c. 1762)
Baubo
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Baubo is a minor figure in Greek mythology who does not appear in surviving sources before the fourth century BCE. A fragment from Asclepiades of Tragilus states that she is the wife of Dysaules, who
Anasyrma
…is the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt. It is used in connection with certain religious rituals, eroticism, and lewd jokes (see, for example, Baubo). The term is used in describing corresponding works of art. Anasyrma may be a deliberately provocative self-exposing of one's naked genitals or buttocks…
A Baubo terracotta figurine of the Priene type, holding a lyre. From Priene, Anatolia.
A face-in-body Baubo figurine