Statue of Aphrodite

You see a Roman copy of a statue by Phidias. The skillfully carved marble glows like human flesh and Cupid's wings seem to flutter as you gaze at this group that may be intended to remind you of the supposed divine origin of Agustus' family. You think of Vergil's descriptions of Venus, mother of Aeneas, in the Aeneid, and of the passage in which Cupid replaces Aeneas' son Ascanius on the lap of Dido, queen of Carthage.