Greek Noses

We learn that the nose of Sócrates was not Greek, but such as Greek artista nsually assigned to satyrs. Occasionally, as in a beautiful gronp of a satyr ïlaying dice with a nymph on a bronze mirror, they gave satyrs another kind of nose. The noses of the ladies in the Tanagra terra cotta are of all agreeable orders of nose, not necessarily Greek. The chances are that the Greeks varied as much as we do in their noses, while the tradition of their art preferred the conventional straight nose. In the same way the kind of Romans who had their portraits done on coins and genis were just the sort of energetic, conquering people who have Roman noses everywhere, like William of Orange and the