Plato and the Idea of Beauty Although our modern concept of symmetry appeared for the first time in the 18thcentury, Plato’s Idea of beauty seems to be strongly connected with the question of symmetry (Lloyd 2010). In the Timaeus, for instance, the concept of bodily “disproportion” is brought forward, whereas in the well-known Symposium, the character of … Continue reading Beyond an Aesthetics of Bodybuilding: Beauty and Symmetry as Expressions of Virtue. A Platonic Reading