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Article: Sailing the `Blue Voyage' along an ancient coastline

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September 25, 1988
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KNIDOS, Turkey More than 2,000 years ago, the Turkish port of Knidos was one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Hellenic world.

So enthralled were visitors with Knidos' statue of Aphrodite - one of the first female nudes sculpted in ancient Greece, and quickly deemed too scandalous to stay in its homeland - that they lined up at a specially constructed back door just to admire the goddess' ample behind.

Praxiteles' controversial statue is long gone, and this once-wealthy city at the tip of a rocky peninsula on Turkey's south Aegean coast is now a somnolent jumble of weathered stories and bleating goats. But one constant remains: Sailboats filled with tourists still dot the ...

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