(Greek eikon, “image”; klaein, “to break”), any movement against the religious use of images, especially the one that disturbed the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives.
The Beauty of Numbers 12 October 2005 Posted by Troels in : Late Antiquity, trackback. There is nothing quike like the magnificence of ancient Rome as expressed in numbers.
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