Abstract
The article deals with the сoncept mens sana in the works by Lesya Ukrainka in the context of European and Ukrainian Modernism. Essential attention is paid to the interpretation of the dramatic poem The Possessed (1901), the main character of which Miriam is correlated with Gospel Mary Magdalene. In the article, the sources of the poems have been analysed, such as Bible, apocrypha, works by Ernest Renan, correspondence with Mykhajlo Dragomanov. The character of Miriam have been interpreted as a symbolic transformation of Mary Magdalene, apocryphal character.
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