![]() ![]() Yet it would be fair to start with the woman described as the most beautiful by the ancient Greeks. ![]() The idea of beauty is not only attached to the living a belt or an armor can be described as beautiful, as well as a man or a woman. ![]() War does not have beautiful things, but Odysseus encountered many beautiful things on his nostos, his journey back home. So most often καλός ( kalos masculine, kalē feminine, kalon neuter) “beautiful, fair” sometimes figuratively, but dîa for women is also translated as beautiful in the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in Murray’s translation, as a word search indicates on Perseus, although δῖος, δῖα, δῖον ( dîos/ dîa/dîon) can also mean “radiant.” In the Homeric Iliad, kalos, ‘beautiful’ occurs ten times and in the Odyssey, 63 times. τὸ καλόν, like κάλλος, beauty, Eur., etc.: τὰ καλά the decencies, proprieties, elegancies of life, Hdt., etc. The Greek word for beautiful/beauty is not a clear cut translation: All Butler translations are from the Sourcebook, and all Murray translations are from Perseus. This is a huge topic, from which I will focus on the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and explore how people in antiquity thought about beauty. The topic canvasses from philosophy to religion from natural to man-made. The realm of beauty is as old as humanity. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, say many. ![]() Beauty: a concept of the mind that is intangible, culturally influenced, and fluid. ![]()
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