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Aphrodite, associated with sensuality and love, is shown nude in each example, following the convention established in fourth-century BCE images of the goddess that radically departed from earlier modes of depicting her clothed. Captured mid-action, she is presented to the viewer in an intimate, private moment of undressing or bathing, as if inviting anyone who sees her to enter into that space of close familiarity where one might reach out to touch her tantalizing skin, only to discover that she is made of hard marble. 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