As he’s designing his statue of Aphrodite, Alexandros struggles with what to put in her hands. Did you have any thoughts as you were reading as to what would be appropriate? What do you feel about his final choice?
I really didn’t give this must thought until this question. I think the hands were an interesting struggle. What does one do with one’s hands at times? I think like Aphrodite herself, she struggled with what do with her life, so Alexandros had to have a struggle too - and given how the author ended the book, she had to made to make the hands fit with the ending she envisioned.
I never thought about it, but then when he talked about leaving the hand open for Ares, I thought that was pretty powerful.