| Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.5.6 (1731 words) |
 | Aphrodite surveys the development of an important subject in classical sculpture, traces its historiography (revealing an unintentionally comic array of 19th and 20th values stretched like ill-fitting clothes on ancient marble bodies), and makes a significant contribution to understanding art production and patronage in the years when Rome was conquering the Eastern Mediterranean. |
| Havelock's thoroughly persuasive case is that although Praxiteles' fourth century Aphrodite constituted the formal basis for the development of the female nude in classical statuary, the theme did not become popular until the late second century BC/BCE. |
| Aphrodite is organized into five chapters that are devoted to the Knidia herself, the reputation of Praxiteles, the period of rediscovery beginning in the late second century, seven major Knidia "spin-offs," and the contexts in which they were used. |
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