Mythology question? How did the Greeks view one's beauty?

Question

What is your opinion on this quote? Do you agree with what the Greeks thought?

He saw the god “like a young man at the age when youth is loveliest,”’ as Homer says. Greek artists and poets realized how splendid a man could be, straight and swift and strong. He was the fulfillment of their search for beauty. They had no wish to create some fantasy shaped in their minds. All the art and all the thought of Greece centered in human beings.

Answer 1

i agree i've met some greek guys and OMG they are soo fine...hehehe...because they appreciate beauty, characters that are god or human like aphrodite, psyche, and narcissus appears in thei mythology.

Answer 2

i think that the Greeks had it right and they prided themselves on how they looked and it was important, unlike today when people care more about what they can buy than how they look physically

Answer 3

greeks valued a perfect looking body :) because a well maintained good looking body is something to envy in their opinions.

Answer 4

the Greeks were ideal, meaning everything had to be perfect. so a woman had to be very beautiful, and a man, handsome and strong.