Smiling Statues (Ancient Greece)

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Those smiling statues I blogged about a couple of days ago…. What could they be smiling about?

Here's an idea. I think that the date of their creation, about 550 BC might be important. The smiling Buddha is one of the few other smiling statuary figures that exists, and it is from around this time — although separated by some thousand plus miles of well-traveled trade routes.

Perhaps the smile is the smile of...