For those who think that ancient Greece was all philosophy and marathons, a scintillating exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston proves otherwise. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Aphrodite and ...

1 Contest: Win Opening Night Tickets to TITANIQUE on Broadway The recently restored statue of Aphrodite housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archeological Museum/the Museum) in ...

Throughout Greek antiquity, Aphrodite was worshiped as the goddess of love and beauty, pleasure and fertility. Sculptors immortalized her beguiling sensuality in marble statues found on Mount Olympus.

She stands about 7 feet tall, her body — nude, but for a garment draped loosely over her hips — forming a sinuous ‘S.' As depicted in a statue that once decorated the amphitheater in Capua, north of ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 2,000-year-old statue of the ancient Greek goddess of love Aphrodite, one of a batch of antiquities stolen from a museum storeroom on the resort island of Santorini, has been ...

Hear our prayer, O Eros, Greek God of Sex: Help us write this story without breaching the bounds of propriety or using "those words," offending neither prudes nor panderers, confining ourselves to ...

The Getty Museum's famous statue of Aphrodite has gone home from the Villa in Malibu to a small town in Sicily, and the Getty, along with other US museums, no longer buys looted antiquities from a ...

Italian prosecutors at the trial of former Getty museum curator Marion Truepainstakingly traced the voyage of an ancient statue of Aphrodite from the time it was illegally excavated until it ended up ...