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Greek Islanders Battled French, Ottomans Over Venus de Milo Statue
” width=”1024″>The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period. Credit: Bradley N. Weber/CC BY 2.0
The Aphrodite of Milo, better known as the Venus de Milo, is one of the most representative statues of the Hellenistic period of Greek sculpture, and one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Greece.
Created sometime between 130 BC and 100 AD, it is believed that it represents Aphrodite (called Venus in Roman mythology), the goddess of love and beauty.
” width=”1080″>The statue was found half-buried, in two pieces, on April 8, 1820 when a Milos island farmer named Giorgos (or Theodoros) Kentrotas was digging in ancient ruins in his field to find some stones he needed for his farm.