Kouros vs Kore - What's the difference?
kouros | kore |
A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(arts, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
* 1966 , Spyros Meletz?s, Helen? A. Papadak?, Akropolis and Museum ,
* 1995 , Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels ,
* 2002 , Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion ,
Kore is a coordinate term of kouros.
As nouns the difference between kouros and kore
is that kouros is a sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore while kore is an Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.As a proper noun Kore is
the birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades.kouros
English
(wikipedia kouros)Noun
(kouroi)- A redstone kouros from Sounion, this strapping young Amsterdammer, translated into the slenderer grace of the modern graminivore.
kore
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Noun
(en-noun)page 42,
- Mus. No 685: Archaic kore' of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This '''kore''' is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other ' kores ,.
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- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
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- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai' (singular: ' kore ): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.