| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2020 8:42 p.m. PST |
Difficult to said… (smile)
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Old Glory  | 12 Oct 2020 8:46 p.m. PST |
The concepts of what "beauty" is changes with the ages. Russ Dunaway |
| Asteroid X | 12 Oct 2020 8:52 p.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Oct 2020 8:55 p.m. PST |
Nefertiti always wows me. |
| Archon64 | 12 Oct 2020 9:57 p.m. PST |
My understanding is that contemporary writers noted her charm, wit, intelligence, humour, knowledge, grace, etc. Absent was any reference to her beauty or physical appearance. Obviously, this doesn't imply she wasn't beautiful. They might not have felt the need to comment on her looks. The phenomenon of looks being the only quality that matters is a very modern thing. |
| Archon64 | 12 Oct 2020 10:21 p.m. PST |
"For her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behaviour towards others, had something stimulating about it. There was sweetness also in the tones of her voice; and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased…" Plutarch, Life of Antony (XXVII.2-3) |
| John the OFM | 13 Oct 2020 3:12 a.m. PST |
Elizabeth Taylor certainly was.
And now Gal Gadot!
That's all the evidence I need. |
| Au pas de Charge | 13 Oct 2020 10:52 a.m. PST |
If memory serves the venerable Professor Donald Kagan was in the camp that she was inbred and one of the ugliest women then living. |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2020 12:36 p.m. PST |
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Heedless Horseman  | 13 Oct 2020 7:20 p.m. PST |
You got a FREE CARPET! What's not to like! Lol |
| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2020 12:39 p.m. PST |
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| Basha Felika | 14 Oct 2020 4:17 p.m. PST |
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| wballard | 23 Oct 2020 2:50 p.m. PST |
Rich or powerful is a beauty of its own. |
| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2020 10:41 p.m. PST |
This from Franzeta is really good… (smile)
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Armand
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