Radiant as silver moonlight, the goddess
of love
stands before us, displaying her beauty.
Such an
exquisite and delicate image was valued
as a rare
and costly treasure by the age that
sculpted it,
and those qualities remain undiminished
by time.
To the classical world the loveliness of
Aphrodite
was ageless and eternal, and this
sculpture offers
eloquent proof of that notion.
- (FZ.132)
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