Aphrodite putting on a sword, unknown date/artist

"On the left of the Lady of the Bronze House they have set up a sanctuary of the Muses, because the Lacedaemonians used to go out to fight, not to the sound of the trumpet, but to the music of the flute and the accompaniment of lyre and harp. Behind the Lady of the Bronze House is a temple of Aphrodite Areia (Warlike). The wooden images are as old as any in Greece." 

-Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.17.5

Aphrodite putting on a sword, unknown date/artist. Marble statue in Florence, Accademia di Belle Arti. Heigth 1.23.


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