Beauty Stereotypes
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Stereotypically Beautiful
Dating back to the Greek and Roman era, paintings, sculptures and other forms of art elicited images of the perfect people in regard only to physical features. These images of beauty molded a mere physical stereotype for desirable women. In ancient literature, the beauty of a woman had enough influence on men to start wars and give their lives to this temptation. The Iliad, an epic poem, tells the story of Helen, whose face launched a thousand ships to war against the Trojans and whose beauty exceeded that of any other Greek. In the Odyssey, another epic poem, beautiful women called sirens, would sing and play music from the shores of the Sirenum scopuli islands, attracting men to shore. For the Romans, statues of naked men and women portrayed the images of perfect bodies in artistic poses. The famous statue of Venus de Milo, sculpted sometime between...