English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《谁偷走了米洛的维纳斯的双臂？》是一本令人振奋的内容来纠正叙述关于有史以来最有标志性的雕塑之一的偏见。

由默默无闻的希腊雕塑家安提阿的亚历山德罗斯在公元前一世纪雕刻，并受到希腊神话《帕里斯的审判》启发，这尊维纳斯雕像于1820年由法国海军少尉奥利维尔·武捷和当地农民约戈斯·肯特罗塔斯在基克拉迪群岛的梅洛斯岛上偶然发现。一年后她被送往巴黎，轰动一时，帮助卢浮宫转变为世界上最著名的博物馆。

菲尔·库西诺这本等待多时的书是一部关于维纳斯女神的多方位冥想拼图，如美丽、爱情、欲望、享乐和幸福，以及她与嫉妒、战争和暴力的阴暗联系。库西诺的作品犹如一个好奇柜，充满了艺术史、神话、考古学、诗歌——以及作者多年在希腊旅行的故事。这是一部充满奇妙多样性和众多故事的书，揭示了崇高艺术的秘密力量，作为一种超越博物馆、在我们日常生活中进一步体验美的方式。