As R. Kousser observes (p. 157 in C. Kondoleon and P.C. Segal, eds., Aphrodite and the Gods of Love), “The Roman goddess Venus had much in common with Aphrodite, but the two were by no means identical.” Like her Greek counterpart, Venus was associated with beauty, love and sexuality, but she also took on a greater involvement with war, victory and the imperial family. The Romans deployed statues of Venus throughout public and private spaces and she took a place on honor in the home. As Kousser surmises (op. cit., p. 162), “Overall, one might say that the Romans dreamed in Greek, deploying Greek visual formats and styles to represent their pleasures, fantasies and ideals.” The pose recalls the “Colonna” type (see fig. 9 in Kondoleon and Segal, eds., op. cit.)