Too much information. Algorists should not paint all ancient heroes with the same brush.
Perseus killed Medusa. But of course we all know that this image is a myth, the peculiar exception granted the arts from various codes of modesty over the centuries, resulting both in countless Renaissance Classicist and Neoclassical depictions of nude Greek goddesses.
Most pictures spend too much time thinking about what is awesome art. This obsession creates a very lonely world. Both pictures are characters whose fate is beyond their own control.
How did ancient greeks look like?
Imagination sometimes says more than volumes of sociopolitical analysis.
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