Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the goddess of love herself—Aphrodite. Though famed in myth for her beauty, it wasn’t until the sculptor Praxiteles broke tradition that the female nude was fully embraced in Greek art. In this vividly illustrated talk, art historian Brenda Edgar explores the cultural, artistic, and gender revolutions sparked by the Aphrodite of Knidos—the first life-size nude of a woman in ancient Greece and the ancient world’s most famous divine sex symbol. Come for the art history, stay for the goddess’s legendary backside.