"What they did was close public ac百家樂,cess to enjoy the arts", she said.
她说：“他们的做法阻碍了公家赏识艺术品。”
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公园的旅客也对这类做法狐疑不解。
"The statues didn't disturb us," Nanda Julinda, who took her children to the park, told the BBC. "It's weird to see art pieces being covered like that."
“The Greeks took their clothes off more than we did, but they didn’t walk down the High Street in Athens naked,” said Ian Jenkins, curator of the exhibition.
“There is a tendency towards nudity [in sculpture] which is not true in any other civilisation. The Egyptians, the Persians and the Assyrians found it shameful.
“But to the Greeks it was the mark of a hero. It was not about representing the literal world, but a world which was mythologised.
“但对希腊人来讲，赤身意味英雄。它不是表示文学世界，而是表示神话世界。”
“If you go in the Assyrian galleries, there are nudes but they are not heroic. They are victims of war, stripped and flayed alive. The Greeks found such representations as unappealing as we do. Their nudity was part of a disassociation from the reality of war. It’s an entirely different aesthetic world.”