It is a vase of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, who is going to strike her mischievous son Eros—in Roman mythology, known as Cupid—with ... of Athens: The statue shows an Aphrodite ...
sitting atop a base depicting Eros (the Greek god of love and desire) seated on a dolphin. Experts believe the statue is likely a Roman imagining of the Greek mythical figures created during the ...