ganymedesrocks:A Venus Pontia-Euploia, Roman Marble, circa 1st Century AD. This version of the godd
ganymedesrocks:A Venus Pontia-Euploia, Roman Marble, circa 1st Century AD. This version of the goddess Venus, known from about twenty ancient replicas, is traditionally associated with the epithets Pontia (of the sea) and Euploia (fair voyage). According to Vermuele and Brauer (Stone Sculptures, The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, p. 50-51), the original is traditionally thought to be from the time of Praxiteles, circa 350 BC, and may have stood in a temple by the sea. -- source link