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  2. Ancient aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Beauty in ancient Greece (800 – 300 B.C.E.) was referred to as κάλλος. The history of ancient Greek aesthetics spans centuries. The history of ancient Greek aesthetics spans centuries. Philosophical theories of beauty through this era are proportion, functionality and form.

  3. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The beauty which is spread over the face of visible nature is an emanation from this spiritual beauty, and is beauty because it symbolizes and expresses the latter. Thus the beauty of a plant resides in its perfect adaptation to its end, a perfection which is an expression of the wisdom of its Creator.

  4. Hellenistic sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...

  5. Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros - Wikipedia

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    The group statue is made of Parian marble, and at 1.55 m. tall (including the base), it is slightly smaller than lifesize. [2]Aphrodite, the beautiful naked goddess of beauty and love, is depicted in frontal with hair well-tressed and tied up with a scarf bound in a bow above her parting.

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Central Greece: 1987 393; i, ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) Delphi, located at the foot of Mount Parnassus, was the site of the Temple of Apollo, a Panhellenic sanctuary, and in Greek view the "navel of the world" (the Omphalos). Pythia, the oracle, resided in the temple, receiving pilgrims from all Greece. In the 6th century BCE, Delphi was seen ...

  7. Marielia Zaloumi - Wikipedia

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    Marielia Zaloumi is a Greek model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Greece 2023 and served as the country's delegate to the Miss Universe 2023 pageant. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Pageantry

  8. Aphrodisia - Wikipedia

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    The Aphrodisia festival (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίσια) was an annual festival held in Ancient Greece in honor of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος).

  9. Korres - Wikipedia

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    The company produces beauty products for women and men, based on natural ingredients (and partly on homeopathy) and it was a pioneer in Greece in this sector. [ citation needed ] Stores