Thank you for finding this Elli! WOW Epicurus comes out STRONG in this video! Here's Epicurus reconstructed, and then afterwards the full video at about the 2:05 mark. This Epicurus is ready to star in his own movie!
Bust Of Epicurus Reconstructed - Great Video Shared by Elli!
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Who does Epicurus look like? For some reason I am thinking of Gerard Butler -the star of "300" -
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I don't know if this is an example of the "uncanny valley" or not, but when I look at this picture it's just–it's just odd somehow...
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I don't know if this is an example of the "uncanny valley" or not, but when I look at this picture it's just–it's just odd somehow...
This is LOT better than some and AI has come a LONG way (no more dead-eyed Polar Express), but yeah there's definitely still some side trips down there uncanny valley. I would have liked to see his hair a little more gray but overall seeing him in his prime was cool I'll admit.
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Who does Epicurus look like? For some reason I am thinking of Gerard Butler -the star of "300" -
THIS...IS... PLEASURE!!!
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You know, Don's comment has me thinking and combining a couple of things.The caption "This is PLEASURE" makes a lot of sense, but I think Epicurus would himself think something else was more appropriate. The connected point is something we rarely talk about, but it remains one of my favorite semi-poetic translations -- the translation by Rolfe Humphies.
So my proposal for the caption would be:
This is THE WAY THINGS ARE!
That's the intensity I see in these eyes:
All fun aside, I do think more and more that Epicurus probably continued to think as he got older the same way he apparently approached life as a child, when he first wanted to get behind the inconsistency of the contention that the universe came from "Chaos."
I therefore doubt he saw his work on "pleasure"' as really the crowning achievement of his life work. I would think if we could talk to him today, he would say that what always drove him, from start to finish, and where he found his greatest pleasure, was in searching for the truth about "the way things are."
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There's a wonderful series of facial reconstructions of ancient Greek personalities on the following website: https://www.greecehighdefinition.com/blog/2020/11/1…and-politicians. While Epicurus is not featured among them, I located an artist's reconstruction of our favorite philosopher elsewhere on the internet:
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Kalosyni
December 16, 2024 at 6:48 PM Moved the thread from forum General Discussion to forum Iconography of Epicurus - Past and Present.
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