The history of humanity is also that of its symbols. The ancient Greeks, the inhabitants of the medieval Far East, the civilizations that populated pre-Columbian America, and we, protagonists of a globalized and hyper-communicated 21st century, have something in common: the fact of inhabiting an immense web of symbolic meanings that challenges and us it contains time that exceeds us. However, we are not always aware of the extent of that network or the depth and variety of the senses produced there.
This volume, an expanded and modified re-edition of the Dictionary of Symbols, is a guide to begin to unveil the nature of symbols and understand the symbolic dimension present in all reality, in all times and in all places.

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