Looking at Beauty to Kalon in Western Greece Selected Essays from the 2018 Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece
The ancient Greek word kalon can be translated as beautiful, good, noble, or fine-yet somehow it transcends any one of those concepts. In art and literature, it can apply straightforwardly to figures like Helen or Aphrodite, or enigmatically to the pais kalos: the youthful athlete that decorates so...
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Main Author: | Reid, Heather L. (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Leyh, Tony (auth) |
Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Parnassos Press - Fonte Aretusa
2019
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Series: | Heritage of Western Greece
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