"Modesty and its ambiguities, from Antiquity to modern times. Modesty, or the tendency to refrain from showing, observing or making a point of certain parts of the body, especially those of a sexual nature, has been variously judged, criticised and analysed over the ages. This article describes some of the changing perceptions of \u201Cmodesty\u201D, with its underlying ambiguities, since Antiquity."@en . . . . "I. Dire, ne pas dire" . "HERM_069_0028" . . . . . . "Pudeur ambigu\u00EB. Des Anciens aux Modernes"@fr . . . . "Modesty and its ambiguities, from Antiquity to modern times"@en . . . . . . . . "\u00AB\u00A0Disposition \u00E0 se retenir de montrer, d\u2019observer, de faire \u00E9tat de certaines parties de son corps, principalement celles de nature sexuelle\u00A0\u00BB ( Tr\u00E9sor de la langue fran\u00E7aise), la pudeur a fait l\u2019objet de jugements, de critiques et d\u2019analyses qui ont sensiblement vari\u00E9 au cours des \u00E2ges. Ce sont quelques-unes des variations du regard port\u00E9 sur cette \u00AB\u00A0disposition\u00A0\u00BB marqu\u00E9e au coin d\u2019une certaine ambigu\u00EFt\u00E9 qui sont ici pr\u00E9sent\u00E9es."@fr .