The various versions of aesthetics that defined the material and spiritual lives of the ancient Greeks, from the Neolithic to late antiquity, will be unveiled before the public at the National Museum of China in Beijing.

The countless aspects of beauty in ancient art will open to the public on November 6 and will bring together some 280 pieces of pottery, bronzes, goldwork, glass objects, murals and sculptures from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

It will highlight the inexhaustible sources of inspiration, in search of beauty, that the Ancient Greeks used to express their changing emotions and mentalities.