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| | CHARITES - Greek goddesses of beauty, mirth, the Graces, mythology, pictures - KHARITES (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | THE KHARITES (or Charites), also commonly known as the Graces, were three goddesses of grace, beauty, adornment, mirth, festivity, dance and song. |
 | | The three Kharites were usually depicted in classical sculpture and mosaic as three naked women, holding hands and dancing in a circle. |
 | | The idea of personified grace and beauty was, as we have already seen, divided into a plurality of beings at a very early time, probably to indicate the various ways in which the beautiful is manifested in the world and adorns it. |
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