
Socrates, Roman marble after a Greek bronze by Lysippos — the Louvre. He was, by every account including his own, remarkably ugly: snub nose, bulging eyes, the face of a satyr. Athens never forgave him for showing them that beauty was elsewhere.

Socrates, Roman marble after a Greek bronze by Lysippos — the Louvre. He was, by every account including his own, remarkably ugly: snub nose, bulging eyes, the face of a satyr. Athens never forgave him for showing them that beauty was elsewhere.
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