Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Things do not start well. Venus – or Aphrodite as she was originally called by the Greeks – was a primordial creature, said to have been ...

Close your eyes and think of Venus. What image comes to mind? Perhaps Botticelli’s bored teenager in her scallop shell; maybe the Venus de Milo, serene, lovely and just a touch bovine; perhaps ...