Task 8. 1) Read and translate the text. BEAUTY. For the

Task 8. 1) Read and translate the text. BEAUTY. For the Greeks beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call - whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's inside and outsides, they still expected that inner beauty would be matched beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite par adoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly - and teach those innocent, splendid looking disciples of how full of paradoxes life really was. They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off - with the greatest facility - the inside (character, intellect) from the outside (appearance); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good A beautiful woman, we say in English. But a handsome man. Handsome is the masculine equivalent of a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only (from Women's Beauty: put down or power source? by Susan Sontag) 2) Comment upon underlined words. What is more significant for you inside or outside beauty? Why?