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THE DYNAMICS OF BEAUTY IN CLASSICAL GREECE

THE DYNAMICS OF BEAUTY IN CLASSICAL GREECE

How beauty worked within the general context of classical Greek life. Then beauty was deemed a gift of the gods and was often prized accordingly in religious ritual. Perhaps the most striking example of this is the phenomenon of the beauty competition (kallisteion), which figures in many myths and is often adopted and adapted in [...]