Beauty and the Gods

How ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient Greece Beginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of ancient Greece were defined by their exceptional beauty; even today, ‘to look like a Greek god’ is proverbial for human beauty. In Beauty and the Gods , Hugo Shakeshaft explores the relationship between the beautiful and divine in ancient Greece, p