Aphrodite of Knidos was the first of her kind, the earliest nude sculpture of a woman known in history. She attracted crowds, though what happened to the goddess remains a mystery.

A marble sculpture of the Aphrodite of Knidos from the 1st century BC, made by Menophantos. National Roman Museum-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy. Photo: Eric Vandeville/akg-images.

“Aphrodite and the Gods of Love’’ at the Museum of Fine Arts is a very beautiful, very smart, very orderly show that is also a kind of hymn to the Greeks’ apprehension of the power of ...

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To illustrate how a marble Aphrodite might have appeared to the ancients, we asked German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann, who has pioneered techniques of color restoration, to create a ...

Many thought she was the most beautiful woman of the ancient world. But Phryne had a wit to match, writes Natalie Haynes. “When,” asked Aphrodite, “did Praxiteles see me naked?” The line ...

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Despite admitting that the odds of success were “about one in 50 million”, Iris Love continued to hope that the discovery of the Knidos Aphrodite’s body might one day be hers to claim. To ...

Included in the restitutions is a marble statue of the goddess Aphrodite, an ancient copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos. The Art Institute of Chicago, ...

Real life goddess Rihanna will be merged with Greek goddess Aphrodite as a part of a collage being shown at Cambridge University's museum.