
I believe that might be a huge understatement!
Like being Rubenesque, zaftig or a stick insect?
"Beauty, by who's standard? Ours or those who lived 2,000 years ago. I believe the standards of beauty were quite different."
I doubt the standards were all that different.
Look at Greek statues, male and female. That was their idea of perfect. And the statuary Greeks are hot.
Roman statues went for realism, not idealism, so you get bony nosed Caesars with warts and fat women etc. But the Romans didn't pretend that these statue portraits were pretty, and when they decorated their palaces and orgy-halls, it was was Greek-looking Adonises and Venuses, which are pretty hot.
Nefertiti: pretty hot.
It could be that standards of beauty have changed. But I doubt it. Money and power, of course, have always been beauty enhancers, and being the boyfriend of the Queen of Egypt was a good gig.
"We are very slightly changed from the semi-apes who ranged India's prehistoric clay.
He who drew the longest bow ran his brother down, you know, as we run men down today...
...'Ere they hewed the Sphinx's visage favouritism governed kissage,
even as it does in our day."
- Kipling, "A General Summary"
Or, it could've been a poorly made coin...