I am Spanish, the sources that I could provide would be in Spanish (specifically a video), so they would not be of much help.
Now, why Greece? They invented theater, tragedy, mathematics, science, PHILOSOPHY, etc... and in a sense, the cult of the body and the concepts of beauty. I think they used math or certain parameters of geometry to determine aesthetics. The Pantheon, for example, is a masterpiece that our best arquitecs or engineers would not be able to create.
We have no evidence of another type of culture that has had such a vast and rich period of creativity and vitalism.
Nietzsche used to say, "other peoples have saints, the Greeks have wise men."
YES, of course, aesthetics are not always related to functionality or usefulness, but the Greeks were not only concerned with external beauty, they practiced the development of moral virtues.
And I agree with you and your diagnosis about the current era, I loved the movie of Idiocracy. A woman (or man) who only has the external is irrelevant to me, much, much more important is having someone with a deep mentality and not superficial. But fat people don't stand out for their intellectual brilliance either, lol
Now, why Greece? They invented theater, tragedy, mathematics, science, PHILOSOPHY, etc... and in a sense, the cult of the body and the concepts of beauty. I think they used math or certain parameters of geometry to determine aesthetics. The Pantheon, for example, is a masterpiece that our best arquitecs or engineers would not be able to create.
We have no evidence of another type of culture that has had such a vast and rich period of creativity and vitalism.
Nietzsche used to say, "other peoples have saints, the Greeks have wise men."
YES, of course, aesthetics are not always related to functionality or usefulness, but the Greeks were not only concerned with external beauty, they practiced the development of moral virtues.
And I agree with you and your diagnosis about the current era, I loved the movie of Idiocracy. A woman (or man) who only has the external is irrelevant to me, much, much more important is having someone with a deep mentality and not superficial. But fat people don't stand out for their intellectual brilliance either, lol