Educational statues

[Augustus]

I live in a tiny village and the only statue is a generic WW1 soldier.

Have you started a campaign to have his head replaced with that of an ibis?

 

[pearl]

Have you learnt anything from statues in your hometown that you wouldn't have otherwise known?

No, the statues are a reflection of history from other resources.

 

[Rival]

Have you started a campaign to have his head replaced with that of an ibis?

I should, but I'll be moving to Canterbury soon, where I can complain that Thomas a Becket was some kind of bigot and Chaucer was a misogynistic Christian fundamentalist.

 

[Heyo]

What did you learn other than that you can balance a chicken, a cat and a dog on top of a donkey?

If you'd turn around from that view, you'd see a more important statue:

Bremen Roland - Wikipedia

I've learned that people even in the middle ages were wary of the powers of the church.

 

[Rival]

I've learned that people even in the middle ages were wary of the powers of the church.

They were more wary of it than we are today, imo! The Middle Ages in Western Europe gave us our basis for the division between Church and State, and the Mediaevals distinguished between civil and ecclesiastical law.

 

[Augustus]

I should, but I'll be moving to Canterbury soon, where I can complain that Thomas a Becket was some kind of bigot and Chaucer was a misogynistic Christian fundamentalist.

You can cancel the Cathedral due to the Anglican Church's links to the slave trade and campaign to have it put in a museum and replaced with a statue of Lenny Henry.

 

[Augustus]

If you'd turn around from that view, you'd see a more important statue:

Bremen Roland - Wikipedia

I've learned that people even in the middle ages were wary of the powers of the church.

He looks like a robot George Washington

 

[Rival]

You can cancel the Cathedral due to the Anglican Church's links to the slave trade and campaign to have it put in a museum and replaced with a statue of Lenny Henry.

No I'm going to do much worse.

I'm going to campaign to have a Catholic Latin Mass said there.

 

[icehorse]

So I was wondering what other people's experiences were of learning from statues in their hometown in terms of either the statue itself, being told about the statue or being motivated to learn by a statue. What knowledge that you would not have otherwise been exposed to did you acquire?

Well, not all towns have equal historical significance. I think - for example - that a statue of a confederate general (from Big Sur ), ought to remain in place. I would also add a plaque that describes how the moral and cultural context from back then differs from today's context, and what we've learned.

 

[Augustus]

Well, not all towns have equal historical significance. I think - for example - that a statue of a confederate general (from Big Sur ), ought to remain in place. I would also add a plaque that describes how the moral and cultural context from back then differs from today's context, and what we've learned.

I just discovered that Big Sur is a place, not just an operating system

Have you learned anything from statues in your hometown that you wouldn't otherwise have known?

 

[Rival]

Have you started a campaign to have his head replaced with that of an ibis?

I should start a campaign for a statue of Ramesses II...

And I want it to be this big,

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Anyone who objects is obviously racist and Paganophobic.

 

[Augustus]

Anyone who objects is obviously racist and Paganophobic.

Bet he had slaves and was an imperialist and engaged in wars against the Nubians which means he is the racist and he had lots of wives which is toxic masculinity and so he should be cancelled senseless.

 

[Rival]

Bet he had slaves and was an imperialist and engaged in wars against the Nubians which means he is the racist and he had lots of wives which is toxic masculinity and so he should be cancelled senseless.

People are just pissed off because his statues are bigger than theirs.

 

[PureX]

I live across the street from an old cemetery where there are hundreds of monuments to dead people. Some of them are quite nice and I actually find them more interesting for the fact that I don't know anything about the people they commemorate.

Most of the public monuments I've seen are just misplaced grave markers that belong in a cemetery.

 

[SomeRandom]

Erm...

It doesn't look like it is related to rape...

The rape of Persephone is just what the myth is typically called. In reality it’s a myth about the abduction of Persephone by Hades (with explicit permission given by Zeus.) This was rather typical of many of the marriages between the Greek/Roman gods. Rape in this context referring to the abduction part specifically.
It’s also technically one of the origin myths of the seasons of Winter and Spring, fun fact.
Ironically, Hades was one of the few Greco/Roman Gods who treated his wife as an equal and their relationship was actually rather functional, all things considered.
Rape of Persephone - Wikipedia.

 

[Koldo]

The rape of Persephone is just what the myth is typically called. In reality it’s a myth about the abduction of Persephone by Hades (with explicit permission given by Zeus.) This was rather typical of many of the marriages between the Greek/Roman gods. Rape in this context referring to the abduction part specifically.
It’s also technically one of the origin myths of the seasons of Winter and Spring, fun fact.
Ironically, Hades was one of the few Greco/Roman Gods who treated his wife as an equal and their relationship was actually rather functional, all things considered.
Rape of Persephone - Wikipedia.

I know the story, I just find it odd how it is called in english... it is mostly an english thing, me thinks.

 

[SomeRandom]

I know the story, I just find it odd how it is called in english... it is mostly an english thing, me thinks.

Yeah. English is a weird language lol
It’s likely just an old usage of the word, since rape hasn’t always exclusively referred to sexual assault.

 

[icehorse]

I just discovered that Big Sur is a place, not just an operating system

Have you learned anything from statues in your hometown that you wouldn't otherwise have known?

Yes. My hometown is north of Chicago- I learned about some of the first freed slaves who made their way north and settled in this town.

 

[icehorse]

I just discovered that Big Sur is a place, not just an operating system

And I was making a very obscure reference to one of my favorite books: A Confederate General from Big Sur

 

[Revoltingest]

We have no statues that I know of in my town.
So nothing learned that way.