For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumedto be what we now have to call whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks todistinguish between a person’s “inside” and “outside”, they still expected that innerbeauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenianswho gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was sointelligent, so brave, so honorable, — and so ugly. One of Socrates’ main pedagogicalacts was to be ugly-and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples ofhis how full of paradoxes life really was.