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Middle finger

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Historical background - According to anthropologist Desmond Maurice, the demonstration of the middle finger (a gesture known to everyone as - Fuck you), symbolizing the demonstration of the genital organ, is one of the most ancient gestures known to us and not only. In ancient Greece, pointing at someone with the middle finger was called and was considered a grave insult and insult, and the middle finger itself was called shameful . In the comedy of Aristophanes "Clouds" (episode I), Socrates, undertaking to teach the sciences to the simple peasant Strepsiades, asks if he knows the poetic size of the dactyl (literally "finger"), to which Strepsiades readily shows the middle finger, which deeply offends Socrates. Socrates calls this ignorance and childishness. The philosopher Diogenes said that “most people are only one finger away from insanity: if a person stretches out his middle finger, he will be considered crazy, and if he is index, they will not be considered.” It was also said about him that “when visitors wanted to look at Demosthenes, he pointed to him with his middle finger with the words:“ Here is the ruler of the Athenian people. In Rome, the gesture, and with it the middle finger itself, was called digitus impudicus - "shameless finger", also digitus infamis - "shameful finger". The gesture is mentioned in a number of Roman classics, for example, in one of Martial's epigrams, an old man, proud of his health, shows the middle finger to the doctors...

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