Were You Attractive In Ancient Greece? | Ancient Greek Beauty Standards
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Beauty is an essential part of any culture throughout human history. The aesthetic appeal of someone or something could not only increase the value of this person or object, but could denote power, prestige or in some cases perfection. Beauty, from an aesthetic and very visual point of view, can be defined by its ability to be pleasing to the eye, one that can inspire admiration and satisfaction. We like what we see and thus, we enjoy beholding that which our eyes perceive. The ancient Greeks were no different from us in this sense and it would be true to say that such ideals from the ancient Greek society (and possibly beyond) have indeed trickled down into our own. After all, it should come as no surprise that in a society where sculptures with bulging biceps, rock hard abs and strongly defined jaws were so highly celebrated that the ancient Greeks were really into their looks. In fact, it would be fair to say that physical appearance in ancient Greece was a pretty big deal and that their notion of what is attractive has certainly left its mark on us today.
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★ Chapters ★
0:00 Intro
01:07 Flexispot
03:40 Ideals of Beauty In Ancient Greece
13:42 Kharis
15:10 Female Beauty In Ancient Greece
23:53 Beauty Contests In Ancient Greece
28:30 Kalon
31:34 Conclusion
💡 TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO 💡
- Ancient Greece
- Beauty Standards
- Ancient Beauty Standards
- Greek Mythology
- History
🎨 Artwork/Illustrations by
Karlo Lottersberger (artstation.com/karlottersberger)
Douglas Deri (artstation.com/douglasderi)
Iro Pagis ( / @iropagis770 )
🎬 Animation by
Michael Merc ( / mercenarycamp )
🎶 Music by
Graham Plowman: www.grahamplowman.com
Derek/Brandon Fietcher: bit.ly/3e8gJw7
📚 Sources and Further Reading 📚
The Metaphysics, Aristotle,
The Republic, Plato
The Thegony, Hesiod
The Odyssey, Homer
The Illiad, Homer
Times and Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton
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This is brilliantly done. I'm glad you're back making content. Hope all is well.
So your telling me there's math in beautie?
I'm out I suck at math
I just can’t win
I can add, subtract, multiply, divide and make change other than that I'm useless at math
I think I woulda did pretty good tbh. Makes me wish I lived back then instead of now, where we all work are entire lives to trade silly little pieces of paper till the day we die.
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the art work is making this seem so serious but his words make me laugh
I'm sure you know this but in modern greek the adjective "καλός-ή-ό" (kalos-male,kali-female,kalo- neutral) has come to mean just"good"or "nice". And "κακός"(kakos) means "bad" or "evil"
In the ancient world, women, in general were seen as morally weak, eliciting the same in men via seduction. The very thing women needed to attract a mate turns out to be there undoing. Muslims still hold this view of women. Merely being female elicits a beastlike hunger in men, so much so that women must drape themselves in dark, heavy gear from head to toe. INCELS hold a similar view of women, so the idea of feminine beauty as overpowering persists today.
I was wondering when you do a video like this!!! Thanks for the video!!!
great video. going to share it with friends.
Interesting concept of Greeks seeing chiseled chest and wash board and as a result of athleticism, when athleticism doesn’t necessarily give you the chiseled chest and washed board abs. I’m in the firefighter process and train quite often with various firefighters and ff candidates as well as practice Brazilian jujitsu and used to do MMA and I must say (and what mainstream media fails to portray ) is that most highly physical activities and highly physical careers have body types of all shapes and sizes (and that applies to active soldiers I know and trained with as well), because they require you to have strong core muscles and A LOT of cardio, and variety of anatomy&physiology result in that strength looking different for each body type, now sure, you’ll be able to tell that they’re “fit” compared to someone of the same body type but many of the athletes and physical Labour workers I train have mom & dad bods, disproportionate bodies, asymmetrical bodies, I mean heck even the strong man competitors don’t have the type of abs Greek artist portray.
I used to have a Samoan MMA trainer/coach who had better cardio, strength, core, and conditioning than I had but would often make self-deprecating jokes about how his body didn’t have the same look as the guys from the 300 movie but mine did and would ask me what my secret was but there wasn’t one. However, that makes sense due to how influential the exaggeration of athletic body types have been extrapolated from the movies and tv shows and magazines in our modern mainstream media but why wud Greeks have the same body standards if their value of bodies was based off the body types athletes and soldiers and etc had as opposed a modern pop culture that exaggerated and over popularized having what our modern culture calls “glamour” muscles?
Certainly, you see that looking dangerous works in your favor when facing a fight. If a woman could run behind either Wesley Snipes or Jason Momoa, which do you think she'd feel safer with? Both are seasoned in the martial arts, but Snipes' slender physique makes him appear less threatening - until you see him perform. (Forget the age difference. I'm just focused on appearance, namely body type).
Of course I was in addition to being exceedingly modest
Thank you for the good video I hope you have a good weekend
Fascinating exploration of beauty standards in Ancient Greece! This video sheds light on the cultural perceptions of attractiveness and the ideals that shaped society. It's intriguing to see how beauty was defined and valued in a vastly different time and place. A thought-provoking journey into the past that challenges our modern perspectives on beauty
I like the designs in this one it reminds me of animations from the 00's version of Catchphrase
Your voice / accent is so mesmerizing .
Is this his real voice or is it computer generated? If real what part of the universe are you from?
I also wanted to issue my sincere condolences for your recent loss.
No matter how strong we think we are when a close family member transitions, it Is a very hard adjustment.
I’m sh*t out of luck in any era.
9:20 idk why this has become a true notion, no, it was because men who were growers were considered to be controlled and strong while endowed.
A historian in Dacian history said to me that chestnut hair was considered blond in the Tracian-Dacian regions. So given close proximity to the Peloponnesian Peninsula was probably the same. So I guess guys like me would have been considered blond. That and in the Mediterranean environment hair gets lighter when spending time in the sun. Peasants would have had some golden locks.
Man 336 likes only this deserves more attention
Yes
Vanity is my favorite sin
- John Milton/Satan, The Devil's Advocate (1997)
No doubt 😅
In other words, the only thing going for me when it comes to good looks in ancient Greece is my hair.
I think I'd be a solid Golden Ratio out of ten
i think id have a 60 procent chance of getting a boo, i have wider hips, which makes jeans shopping a horror cause most bigger sizes have long legs too and im a shorty XD
i used to have long curly hair, now it is half shaven, it is still wavy/curly though,
skin colorwise id losee big time due to being tanned.
as for bellyfat im good there too, i wouldn't call myself overweight but i definitely have those lovehandles lol
Celebrity wise where would Florence Pugh - blond hair, green eyes, "soft natural" - rate in Greek beauty?
Nope. I wouldn't do well there either.
A girl did say I had a cute smile once, but I'm not sure how much that would help me in ancient Greece.
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I can only imagine that Kenyan men would be seen as grotesque. They were/are typically tall, muscular, coffee bean brown and certainly well-endowed in the nether region. However, they tend to be slim, rather than bulky - ideal marathon runners, pole vaulters, etc. Maybe that would be the _one_ thing Greeks admire about them on the rare chance of an encounter. Whereas North Africans tend to by sinewy and thin, not up to the Greek standard.
You lost me at “small penis” 😂
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This video is about greeks then why are you showing roman sculptures?
Farrah Fawcett was the most kind and beautiful woman who ever lived,and was a natural beautiful woman ,people stood in line around the block just to talk to her ...made millions off her natural beauty that woman & transvestite ( lol)
Would pay high dollar for her natural beauty..that could never be achieved. °•○
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Blonde is Beautiful, baby!
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“He’s so uncivilized” me: 👀
Nowdays having a large penis is considered a sign of strong masculinity and male fertility and having a strong sexual prowess and most men now seek to have large penises or at least desire to have one to appear more appealing to women but in ancient times having a large penis was considered like an abominable thing for a man to have as opposed to having a small penis. While nowdays having a small penis is considered a sign of male sexual weakness and can't really provide long lasting sexual pleasure to a woman during sex, just let's you know how much have changed considering beauty standards even to the point of considering one's penis size to that of modern day beauty standards.
Nowadays, most men consider a point of pride to bring pleasure to their woman. The ancient Greeks did not prioritize this.
we look like ancient statue anyway, would prob actually get gf in some way back then, sadly me ugly for today's standards and get no tinder match or gf
some things dont change, seems like we still celebrate big asses now as the greeks did.
It was also attractive for women to have high foreheads and they would pluck their hairline to increase its size
U keep showing Venus and calling her Aphrodite. Venus is standing in the clam shell in the parking called the birth of Venus. I just wonder how many other mistakes you have made. This video is very interesting non the less.
😭 Basically, Ancient Greek never interested KAWAII.
I suspect I would've been, at best: an unremarkable specimen, due to my status as a non Greek and at worst: an athletic, yet promiscuous man of lacking "moderation". 😏😆
An old balding male, with a spare tire would have to be completely covered when out in public. 😷
Old women were housed in the neaby caves.
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@@danielseelye6005 Lmao. true. . .
The darkest periods in human history only came after Jesus was born. Some of the worst war crimes in recorded human history were carried out in the names of Jesus and God.
If we REALLY want to split hairs, you should think about *that.*
That was supposed to happen over 20 years ago and yet nothing took place.
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