theworldasitoncewasnot submitted:
I hate these things.
![krgray:
[The] Callipygian Venus,… literally meaning “Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks”, is an Ancient Roman marble statue… [depicting] a partially draped woman, [uncovering] her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Venus…
[The statue] recalled in the minds of viewers a story… of two girls in Syracuse who were trying to decide which of them had the more shapely buttocks:
Once upon a time a farmer had two beautiful daughters. One day these girls, getting into a dispute as to which one had a more beautiful backside, went out onto the public street. And by chance a young man was passing by, the son of a rich old man. They showed themselves to him, and when he saw them he voted in favor of the older girl. And in fact, falling in love with her, when he got back to town, he took to his bed and told his younger brother everything that had happened. And the younger brother also went to the country and saw the girls, and he fell in love with the other daughter. And so when the boys’ father tried to get them to marry someone of the upper classes, he couldn’t persuade his sons, and so he brought the girls in from the country, with their father’s permission, and married them to his sons. And so these girls were called fair-buttocked by the citizens… And so these girls, when they got wealthy and famous, founded a temple of Aphrodite and called the goddess the Fair-buttocked.
source: Wikipedia](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvm9lxfgKd1qinbs8o1_1280.jpg)
The Corpse Came Calling (Schulz Cover)
A later McGinnis cover is here
http://pulpcovers.com/the-corpse-came-calling-schulz-cover
