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Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created. Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch, in the first first century BCE, and inspired by the Greek myth of the Judgment of Paris, the Venus was discovered serendipitously in 1820 by the French ensign Olivier Voutier and a local farmer, Yorgos Kentrotas, on the Cycladic Island of Melos. Her celebrated arrival in Paris a year later helped transform the Louvre into the most famous museum in the world. Phil Cousineau's long-awaited book is a mosaic of meditations on the marvelous attributes of Venus, such as beauty, love, desire, pleasure, and happiness, as well as her shadowy connections with envy, war and violence. Cousineau's work is a curiosity cabinet chockfull of art history, mythology, archaeology, poetry-and tales from the author's years of travels around Greece. This is a polyfabulous, many-storied, book that reveals the secret strength of sublime art as a means of further experiencing beauty beyond museums and in our everyday lives.

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PHIL COUSINEAU is a freelance writer, documentary filmmaker, independent scholar, creativity consultant, mythologist, and leader of cultural tours to sacred sites all over the globe. He has published over 40 books, including several best-sellers such as The Hero's Journey: The Life and Work of Joseph Campbell, The Art of Pilgrimage, Burning the Midnight Oil. The Book of Roads, The Accidental Aphorist, and The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus. Cousineau has also written or co-written over twenty-five award-winning documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated ""Forever Activists: Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,"" and the landmark ""The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis."" Since 2009 he has served as host and cowriter of ""Global Spirit,"" airing on PBS and LINK-TV. For decades, Cousineau has worked as a story consultant on myth in the movies for Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Animation Studios. Currently, he lives with his wife Jo and son Jack on Telegraph Hill, in North Beach, San Francisco.

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