:Relating how the French returned to Melos just in time to intercept a Russian boat bearing their treasure away, Curtis dismisses the mythic "fight on the beach" in which the Venus supposedly lost her arms; she had been found without them. [http://www.amazon.com/Disarmed-Story-Venus-Gregory-Curtis/dp/0375415238 (Publisher's Weekly)] | :Relating how the French returned to Melos just in time to intercept a Russian boat bearing their treasure away, Curtis dismisses the mythic "fight on the beach" in which the Venus supposedly lost her arms; she had been found without them. [http://www.amazon.com/Disarmed-Story-Venus-Gregory-Curtis/dp/0375415238 (Publisher's Weekly)] |