Beauty has always been appreciated. The object of admiration can be people, animals, plants, landscapes, buildings, or anything with a special charisma and charm that is perceived as attractive. The fact that devotion to the miracle of beauty can develop to the point of worship is illustrated by the deification of beauty in various cultures, including christian culture, which has always ascribed "angelic" beauty to disfigured saints and heaven's messengers. In ancient greece, this tendency towards deification found its olympian expression in the form of apollo, the god of light, and aphrodite, the goddess of love "born from foam." whoever hits the arrow of his son and friend eros, who rides both winged and dolphins, will fall at the feet of the "beloved". And it's certainly not just for the weak, the weak and the weak, it also applies to those who are strong and powerful, even to mars, who cannot oppose venus, the roman counterpart of aphrodite. 'Power and glory' is over. It's a mythological paradigm for what seems to be both a fateful and inevitable interrelation between power and beauty. When the conqueror of the city, the winner of the tournament, the winner of the poets and singers contest, or even the very rich, sets his sights on the prettiest, the most beautiful, on the other hand, pay special attention to the most successful (which is not just countless daily experiences, it's a mythological paradigm for what seems to be both a fateful and inevitable interrelation between power and beauty. When the conqueror of the city, the winner of the tournament, the winner of the poets and singers contest, or even the very rich, sets his sights on the prettiest, the most beautiful, on the other hand, pay special attention to the most successful (which is not just countless daily experiences, it's a mythological paradigm for what seems to be both a fateful and inevitable interrelation between power and beauty.
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