Hallie Franks is Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at New York University, USA. She is author of The World Underfoot: Mosaics and Movement in the Greek Symposium (2018) and Hunters, Heroes, Kings (2012).

[This] is an important, and timely, volume that deserves a wide readership. Accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it should be required reading in courses on gender and Classical reception... I very much hope that Franks’ insightful and highly relevant work is read far beyond our discipline.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroductionChapter 1. Divine: The Aphrodite of KnidosChapter 2. Corrupt: The Venus de Medici and the Venus de MiloChapter 3. Pristine: A Goddess in White MarbleChapter 4. Moral: Translating the Ancient BodyChapter 5. Natural: Venus as Dress ReformerChapter 6. Fit: Venus and Physical CultureChapter 7. Canonical: The Measure of BeautyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Hallie Franks is Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at New York University, USA. She is author of The World Underfoot: Mosaics and Movement in the Greek Symposium (2018) and Hunters, Heroes, Kings (2012).

[This] is an important, and timely, volume that deserves a wide readership. Accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it should be required reading in courses on gender and Classical reception... I very much hope that Franks’ insightful and highly relevant work is read far beyond our discipline.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroductionChapter 1. Divine: The Aphrodite of KnidosChapter 2. Corrupt: The Venus de Medici and the Venus de MiloChapter 3. Pristine: A Goddess in White MarbleChapter 4. Moral: Translating the Ancient BodyChapter 5. Natural: Venus as Dress ReformerChapter 6. Fit: Venus and Physical CultureChapter 7. Canonical: The Measure of BeautyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Hallie Franks is Associate Professor of Ancient Studies at New York University, USA. She is author of The World Underfoot: Mosaics and Movement in the Greek Symposium (2018) and Hunters, Heroes, Kings (2012).

[This] is an important, and timely, volume that deserves a wide readership. Accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it should be required reading in courses on gender and Classical reception... I very much hope that Franks’ insightful and highly relevant work is read far beyond our discipline.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroductionChapter 1. Divine: The Aphrodite of KnidosChapter 2. Corrupt: The Venus de Medici and the Venus de MiloChapter 3. Pristine: A Goddess in White MarbleChapter 4. Moral: Translating the Ancient BodyChapter 5. Natural: Venus as Dress ReformerChapter 6. Fit: Venus and Physical CultureChapter 7. Canonical: The Measure of BeautyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex