{"id":9129,"date":"2020-06-02T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:13:52","slug":"ancient-greek-mask-of-zeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/ancient-greek-mask-of-zeus\/","title":{"rendered":"Repros of ancient masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reproductions of old masks that were actually worn in theater performances (or copied by ancient Romans over 2000 years ago) are available for very little cost. Different characters, gods and Roman emperors are made by skilled commercial artists around the world. I think that anyone who enjoys this site should have at least one of these affordable sculptures on a wall in their home.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend, who is a retired classics professor, believes the two masks shown here are poor reproductions. I think they are still quite decorative, but if you are a classics scholar, search more carefully than I did. C <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9130\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ancient_Greek_theatrical_mask_of_Zeus_replica_8380375983.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9136\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2-768x1121.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2-701x1024.jpg 701w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2-600x876.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zeus-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reproductions of old masks that were actually worn in theater performances (or copied by ancient Romans over 2000 years ago) are available for very little cost. Different characters, gods and Roman emperors are made by skilled commercial artists around the world. I think that anyone who enjoys this site should have at least one of these affordable sculptures on a wall in their home. My good friend, who is a retired classics professor, believes the two masks shown here are poor reproductions. I think they are still quite decorative, but if you are a classics scholar, search more carefully than I did. C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}