Yes, I've heard that, too--a ribbon or string through the stack.

It still strikes me as strange.

It's fun to look at the cards this way. Lorredan, you are a unicorn hunter of the highest order. It's a stretch to call Plato's Republic a social contract. (A long stretch.) The idea of a social contract--freely entered into by people who are in essence both rational and equal--emerges in the mid 16...

robert wrote:Are you screaming?

No. I'm emphasizing.
THISISSCREAMING.

Translations of Plato into Latin in 321 AD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcidius Calcidius (or Chalcidius) was a 4th century philosopher (and possibly a Christian) who translated the first part (to 53c) of Plato's Timaeus from Greek into Latin around the year 321 and provided with it an extensive ...

Plato identifies Justice as the greatest virtue of the State in his Republic and there's an implication that it is the highest good for the soul as well because it brings the soul into balance. I don't remember the details of the argument. There's a good discussion here, the Stanford Encyclopedia of...

OK so it could well be Veritas locked up. Veritas is the Mother of Virtue the daughter of Saturn. http://atwaatwar.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/truth-aletheia-veritas-2/ aaaarrrgh that web site is devoted to the adoration of Charles Manson the psycho killer. Honest to god the web gets weirder and weird...

I don't know how accurate this is, but I found it interesting, and the author agrees that it is Prudence walled up: http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Post/1231045 Hunks of that web essay are plagiarized. The original sources include http://www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/medias/medias_fichiers/fichi...

Although not on the same plane, I don't think the way the spear is pointing - directly into the 'V' of Lust's open legs - is accidental. Mantegna would have been well aware of the effect he was producing, which was compositional as well as an allusion. I doubt any aspect of this picture is accident...

Here's a better image. http://mini-site.louvre.fr/mantegna/images/section8/zoom/08_06.jpg ... If you look at where the spear is pointing, and where Pallas is looking, it is pointing right at the wee fella's willy - ... So my interpretation would be that the spear was broken in the first thrust again...

Rosanne, is your Knight on a horse? That's what I'm seeing, thank you very much google. http://wtfarthistory.com/post/8130067131/virtue-over-vice (unidentified author) The heroine in the painting is Pallas, a.k.a. Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom (a.k.a. Athena, the Greek name for the same figur...