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In the Euripides play about Helen of Troy: My life and fortunes are a monstrosity, Partly because of Hera, partly because of my beauty. If only I could shed my
by msluyter 16y ago
In the Euripides play about Helen of Troy:
My life and fortunes are a monstrosity,
Partly because of Hera, partly because of my beauty.
If only I could shed my beauty and assume an uglier aspect
The way you would wipe color off a statue.
Strange as it seems to our modern eyes, they really did consider this beautiful. I'd guess that such bright colors were rare (and expensive) back then, so anything that vivid would have been extraordinary.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoAlso, though we can detect which pigments were used on the statues we cannot determine the quantity. The degree of artistry, and perhaps subtlety, that was used to paint these statues is lost to us. We know that they were not plain, but beyond that we know very little of what they actually looked like.