By studying a life-sized copy of the famous statue in the Louvre, Ben hopes to find the truth lying behind her many contradictions.

Is she:

• a collection of fragments or a unified whole? One or Many? Unum or Pluribus?
• the Platonic essence of woman?
• a whore or a nurturing mother, Mary Magdalene or the Virgin Mary?
• an ideal woman or merely a beautiful sex object?

In the end, is the truth knowable or are we better off not knowing it?

Aphrodite © 1999 by James M. Guiher

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