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Despite those anatomical absences, scholar Lodwick Pollak was able to identify the sculpture as a second-century marble copy of the celebrated Discobolus, the original cast in bronze by Myron four centuries before the Common Era.—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 Tantric cultural and spiritual traditions, which began to emerge in the early centuries of the Common Era, take a positive perspective on the material world in general and the human body in particular, as opposed to traditions that regard both as inherently illusory or sinful.—Anya Foxen, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025