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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3074783, member: 88829&quot;]Here she is from Siscia on a bad hair day, or when she was trying to fend off the advances of Maximinus (who mercilessly hated and haunted her after she turned him down).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]773173[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As for that &quot;apple&quot; Venus is carrying, I think it is more fitting that it represents a &quot;Love Apple&quot; (Pomegranate) rather than some form of Malus.&nbsp; As for the connection to Eve in the Bible, there is nothing in the Biblical record to specify what kind of botanical fruit it was.&nbsp; I have always thought it curious that there is such a widespread supposition that the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was an apple.&nbsp; Some artistic license somewhere, I suppose.&nbsp; Be that as it may, even if we suppose that Gal Val was inclined toward a Christian point of view, as some have suggested, the use of Jewish imagery in conjunction with the Goddess Venus seems quite remote at best.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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