The Symbolism of the Human Body
The Symbolism of the Human Body

Summary/Abstract: The vision that people had about the human body has evolved over time. Rather, it has continuously changed, because "evolution" meant not every time, at every moment of a changing of the paradigm, an increasingly clarification, a more sharp image that cultures have developed in relation to the human body. Most radically different conception of the role, significance and symbolism of the human body were recorded - in the European space - between Roman and Greek antiquity and the debuts of Christian era. Worshiped in Antiquity and mortified by Christians the human body was the battlefield where were fought the fiercest ideological battles of the first millennium AD. And the fight - in a deaf form - continues…

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