APPENDIX C΄ ON DEPILATION: BODY COSMETICS IN CLASSICAL ...

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and, 122-3:
apple¤ÌappleÂÈ ÛfÓ ‰ÔÚd ηd ¯ÂÚd appleÚ¿ÎÙÔÚÈ
ıÔ‡ÚÈÔ˜ ùÚÓȘ T¢ÎÚ›‰’ âapple’ ·r·Ó,
ÔåˆÓáÓ ‚·ÛÈÏÂf˜ ‚·ÛÈÏÂÜÛÈ ÓÂáÓ, ï ÎÂÏ·ÈÓfi˜, Ù’ âÍfiappleÈ àÚÁĘ,
Ê·Ó¤ÓÙ˜ úÎÙ·Ú ÌÂÏ¿ıÚˆÓ, ¯ÂÚe˜ âÎ ‰ÔÚÈapple¿ÏÙÔ˘ etc.
ΉÓe˜ ‰b ÛÙÚ·ÙfiÌ·ÓÙȘ å‰gÓ ‰‡Ô Ï‹Ì·ÛÈ ‰ÈÛÛÔf˜
\AÙÚ›‰·˜ Ì·¯›ÌÔ˘˜, â‰¿Ë etc.
There is no question of Menelaus not being valourous or strong or
athletic. He is only irascible, less solid and ponderous than
Agamemnon, and can be thus compared with apple‡Á·ÚÁÔ˜. (It may be
significant that in Euripides, Orestes, 1584-5, Orestes calls on
Menelaus thus:
ÔyÙÔ˜ Û‡, ÎÏF‹ıÚˆÓ ÙáӉ Ìc „·‡ÛF˘ ¯ÂÚÔÖÓØ
MÂӤϷÔÓ ÂrappleÔÓ, n˜ appleÂapple‡ÚÁˆÛ·È ıÚ¿ÛÂÈØ
i.e. who are inflated and towering with insolent rashness; remember
the Aristotelian «‰Èa Ùe ı¿ÚÛÔ˜» respecting the apple‡Á·ÚÁÔ˜).
Similar remarks apply to Lycophron’s use of apple‡Á·ÚÁÔ˜ in reference
to Paris. \AϤͷӉÚÔ˜, as his very name implies, was not an effeminate
weakling. See, e.g. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, III, 150: ÁÂÓfiÌÂÓÔ˜ ‰b
Ó·ӛÛÎÔ˜ (sc. ï ¿ÚȘ), ηd appleÔÏÏáÓ ‰È·Ê¤ÚˆÓ οÏÏÂÈ Ù ηd ÚÒÌFË,
·sıȘ \AϤͷӉÚÔ˜ appleÚÔÛˆÓÔÌ¿ÛıË, ÏFËÛÙa˜ àÌ˘ÓfiÌÂÓÔ˜ ηd ÙÔÖ˜
appleÔÈÌÓ›ÔȘ àÏÂÍ‹Û·˜. Certainly he was exceedingly beautiful (‰ÖÔ˜ and
ıÂÔÂȉ‹˜ are his standard epitheta in Homer; he was shining in his
beauty, οÏÏÂ˚ ÛٛςˆÓ, Ilias, Γ, 392) and he was a natural seducer,
with an innate eye as well as desire for women. (¢‡Ûapple·ÚÈ, Âr‰Ô˜ ôÚÈ-
ÛÙÂ, Á˘Ó·ÈÌ·Ó¤˜, äappleÂÚÔappleÂ˘Ù¿ exclaims Hector chastising him, Ilias Γ,
39; Ν, 769; we learn that ≥ (sc. Aphrodite) Ôî (sc. to Alexander) applefiÚÂ
Ì·¯ÏÔÛ‡ÓËÓ àÏÂÁÂÈÓ‹Ó, Ilias, Ω, 30. His taste for women did not,
however, monopolize his desires: Antheus was his beloved; v.
Lycophron, 134 with the scholia), qualities, which made him the
obvious choice as the judge of the beauty contest among the
goddesses. He might have been, understandably, very conscious of his
beauty’s preciosity, and therefore he could have been not particularly
forward in continuously entering the battle (he would rather prefer to