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According to historical author Claudius Aelianus, Tiridates was the most beautiful and kind person in Asia, he is the Persian eunuch-youth and lover of King Artaxerxes II. He (Tiridates) died at an early age, and Artaxerxes grieved about him, and almost gone mad with sorrow. The king declared funeral mourning on throughout the Persian Empire.

Ancient Greeks about Persian perception of beauty from the book "Dio Chrysostom, The Twenty-first Discourse: On Beauty."
Int. Very well! But how did the Persians regard beauty?
Dio. Why, does it need any explanation, seeing that they made eunuchs of the beautiful males in order that they might have them as beautiful as possible? So greatly superior in beauty did they think the female/femininity to be. ...so they try to put a feminine appearance on the males, being incapable of loving them in any other way. But perhaps in the case of the Persians the way the boys are reared is the cause, I mean that for a long time they are brought up by women and the older eunuchs, and that young boys do not associate much with other young boys, nor the striplings with others of their own age, and that they do not go naked in the wrestling schools and gymnasia.

But apparently not all Greeks considered male masculinity an ideal:
"...the most beautiful figure among males was the effeminate, but among the females, on the other hand, the opposite." - said Critias, who had followed Socrates, was the most prominent of the Thirty Tyrants who, put in power through the influence of the Spartans, ruled Athens in 404 B.C.

- Deva

Description
According to historical author Claudius Aelianus, Tiridates was the most beautiful and kind person in Asia, he is the Persian eunuch-youth and lover of King Artaxerxes II. He (Tiridates) died at an early age, and Artaxerxes grieved about him, and almost gone mad with sorrow. The king declared funeral mourning on throughout the Persian Empire.

Ancient Greeks about Persian perception of beauty from the book "Dio Chrysostom, The Twenty-first Discourse: On Beauty."
Int. Very well! But how did the Persians regard beauty?
Dio. Why, does it need any explanation, seeing that they made eunuchs of the beautiful males in order that they might have them as beautiful as possible? So greatly superior in beauty did they think the female/femininity to be. ...so they try to put a feminine appearance on the males, being incapable of loving them in any other way. But perhaps in the case of the Persians the way the boys are reared is the cause, I mean that for a long time they are brought up by women and the older eunuchs, and that young boys do not associate much with other young boys, nor the striplings with others of their own age, and that they do not go naked in the wrestling schools and gymnasia.

But apparently not all Greeks considered male masculinity an ideal:
"...the most beautiful figure among males was the effeminate, but among the females, on the other hand, the opposite." - said Critias, who had followed Socrates, was the most prominent of the Thirty Tyrants who, put in power through the influence of the Spartans, ruled Athens in 404 B.C.

- Deva