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I contest that point, Christianity was one of the first widespread western cultures to make absolutes in this sense, in the so called 'noble' cultures of Ancient Greece a good antagonist, rival or enemy is one who possessed similar traits to yourself in order to make him a worthy adversary, one of these traits being beauty, think back to the story of the Fall and you can see this idea of worthy foes between Lucifer and Micheal.
Also, popular theological opinion (of that period certainly) would cite the beast in Revalations as an incarnation of Satan, and that certainly isn't described flatteringly.
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Exactly what point are you contesting? I said people. Not people of a certain era. I don't do it so I obviously don't think all people do. Once again, I seem to draw people who wish to debate things I say just to debate them without actually considering what they are saying. Your post has no relevance to mine.
And nothing I have ever read has ever seen the beast from Revelation as being Satan. And I have read quite a bit on the subject.
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The Pan/devil thing, like so much else, was probably derived from a socio-political campaign alienating and vilifying pagans.
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Do you really think that they laid out a plan with the intent of "alienating" a people that they were already stoning and burning? Isn't it much more likely (and true) that they merely saw the unattractive as being of the devil and the foolish, frightened people attributed drawings they saw of pagan gods as being the devil manifest?