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Armless Fun? On the Venus de Milo (historytoday.com)
29 points by prismatic on Dec 11, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



For a while, you could buy this figure of Venus with arms and try various poses: https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/5571/figma+Venus+de+Mi...

Alas, looks like it's discontinued and not sold anywhere anymore.


There is a rumor that the Venus de Mio has its own entry in the Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It used to consist of only one word: "Armless". But after 15 years of research by a contributor It was changed to "Mostly armless". (Sorry, had to do it)


No, you didn't.


This is the first time I hear that the Venus de Milo is (probably) holding an apple. Other websites either don't mention this at all or include a single sentence.

I would have imagined that there are only so many ways to make a hand in a specific position fit with the rest of the torso. So I'd like to know what the difficulties are.




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