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Article: Aphrodisias or bust... Tucked away in Turkey,Giles Milton discovers an ancient city devoted to the Goddess of Love - and falls head over heels for its classical beauty.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2006
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Byline: GILES MILTON
THE woman in front of me was seated in a most provocative pose. Naked from the waist down, and with legs coyly crossed at the knees, she looked every bit the seductive temptress. Except that something was missing - namely, her head, arms, shoulders and torso.
This life-size statue of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, had gone topless and, in the process, lost just a little of her allure.
Yet her missing parts were more than compensated for by the chunks of heads, hands and bodies strewn across the ground at Aphrodisias - one of the most extraordinary classical sites ever discovered. Even if ruins leave you as cold as old ...