The size and splendor of the era that is considered the cradle of Western culture is reflected in Greek painting. Wall and vase paintings express the beauty of a long-lost world. 176 illustrations, 64 in four colors.
Dimitrije Popović in the book Fornication and Holiness talks about the fatal biblical woman Mary Magdalene who becomes a saint from a prostitute. It is this inner transformation of the intriguing female personality that represents the transformation from
"In the morphology of the female being, there are no more desirable characters than Judith and Salome, two women who carry two heads: their own and a severed one," writes the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset in his essay on Salome.