{"id":245585,"date":"2025-12-10T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=245585"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:58:30","slug":"eros-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/eros-and-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Eros and Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"43\"><em><strong>by Christos Zambounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"382\">\u201cThe only problem with beauty is that we become so complacent that we believe no further effort is required,\u201d writes Lena Paparrigopoulou on page 21 of her book The Power of My Illness. As a crowned beauty (Star Hellas 2002), she is entitled to speak on the subject. Moreover, as her work demonstrates, she did not rest on her laurels.<br \/>\nAfter completing her degree in Social Theology and her postgraduate studies (MSc) in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Sociology, she published The Stoic Philosophy of Religion in 2020 and embarked on a long journey of self-knowledge. This journey first led her to Hawaii and later to Tahiti, where she lived for several years.<br \/>\nWithout losing touch with her Greek identity, she engaged with universal human issues such as loneliness, friendship, jealousy, insecurity, self-love, inner openness, childhood, boredom, Spirit, Love, the fear of survival, and, of course, eros.<br \/>\n\u201cEros is a lie of the mind.\u201d<br data-start=\"990\" data-end=\"993\" \/>\u201cWe need eros. That is why we usually mirror ourselves onto the object of our desire.\u201d<br data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1082\" \/>\u201cEros, as it has been served to us\u2014by society and romantic films\u2014lasts only as long as it remains unfulfilled.\u201d<br data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1196\" \/>\u201cEros is part of the human illness.\u201d<br \/>\nI quote a few of her thoughts at random. How wonderful it is to read books that make you think!<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1409\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">P.S. Without a doubt, the standout chapter is Jealousy \u2013 Friendship 1\u20130.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1409\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245577 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/I-dunami-tis-arrostias-mou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/I-dunami-tis-arrostias-mou.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/I-dunami-tis-arrostias-mou-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/I-dunami-tis-arrostias-mou-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zambounis \u201cThe only problem with beauty is that we become so complacent that we believe no further effort is required,\u201d writes Lena Paparrigopoulou on page 21 of her book The Power of My Illness. As a crowned beauty (Star Hellas 2002), she is entitled to speak on the subject. Moreover, as her work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":245578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245588,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245585\/revisions\/245588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}