#Phyllis and Aristotle

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Master M.Z. , Aristotle and Phyllis, c. 1500.

[thecrankyprofessor]

I love medieval ivories.

Carved ivory casket, Paris, France, circa 1320-1330

from The Victoria and Albert Museum

[jstor]

These 13th- and 14th-century aquamanilia from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR (which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone) are really something else. Our favorite is the one of Aristotle and Phyllis. Sure, the story behind it is as sexist as you may expect, but we prefer to interpret it as the triumph of woman over insufferable mansplainer.

[rossodimarte]

Phyllis riding Aristotle, Augsburger Georgsspiel, ca. 1486-1520

[jessdyet]

Hans Baldung Grien - Aristotle and Phyllis 1513

[justincase-77]

Now I need to oogle Phyllis riding Aristotle! Lol

Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis, Bronze, Quaternary copper alloy, South Netherlandish, 14th – 15h century.

[blueiscoool]

The Marble Head of Apollo Unearthed in Greece

The excavation, carried out by a group of students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the archaeological site of Philippi Kavala, brought to light important findings. Among other things, they discovered a rare head of Apollo dating back to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD.

The statue dates back to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD and it probably adorned an ancient fountain.

Natalia Poulos, Professor of Byzantine Archaeology, led the excavation, which included fifteen students from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (11 undergraduates, 2 master’s, and 2 PhD candidates), Assistant Docent Anastasios Tantsis, and Professor Emeritus of Byzantine Archaeology Aristotle Mendzo.

Archaeologists say, this year the excavation continued east of the southern main road (decumanus) at the point where it meets the northern axis of the city (the so-called “Egnatia”). The continuation of the marble-paved road was revealed, on the surface of which a coin (bronze phyllis) of the emperor Leo VI (886-912) was found, which helps to determine the duration of the road’s use. At the point where the two streets converge, a widening (square) seems to have been formed, dominated by a richly decorated building.

Archaeologists say evidence from last year’s excavations leads them to assume it was a fountain. The findings of this year’s research confirm this view and help them better understand its shape and function.

The research of 2022 brought to light part of the rich decoration of the fountain with the most impressive statue depicting Hercules as a boy with a young body.

The recent excavation (2023) revealed the head of another statue: it belongs to a figure of an ageneous man with a rich crown topped by a laurel leaf wreath. This beautiful head seems to belong to a statue of the god Apollo. Like the statue of Hercules, it dates from the 2nd or early 3rd century AD and probably adorned the fountain, which took its final form in the 8th to 9th centuries.

In classical Greek and Roman religion and mythology, Apollo is one of the Olympian gods. He is revered as a god of poetry, the Sun and light, healing and illness, music and dance, truth and prophecy, and archery, among other things.

Philip II, King of Macedon, founded the ancient city of Philippi in 356 BC on the site of the Thasian colony of Crenides near the Aegean Sea. The archaeological site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016 for its outstanding Roman architecture, urban layout as a smaller reflection of Rome itself, and significance in early Christianity.

By Oguz Buyukyildirim.

[centuriespast]

Jan de Beer Aristotle and Phyllis 1515-20 Pen and brown ink, 275 x 191 mm British Museum, London

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Aquamanile depicting Phyllis riding Aristotle — a scene from the legend in which Phyllis, Aristotle's lover, humiliates him by riding on his back after he warned Alexander the Great about the dangers of women. Made of copper alloy, this piece originates from the South Lowlands, dating to the 14th-15th century AD.

📸 The MET Museum

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis, Bronze, Quaternary copper alloy, South Netherlands, 14th – 15h century.

source: nobrashfestivity

[azspot]

It’s probably been done before, though I don’t know of the book if it has, but one could write a terrific book on Marx and his breakups.

The model here would be Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives. Instead of a book about five Victorian marriages, however, and the mix of intellectual, personal, and political sparks they emitted, this would be a book about Marx’s intellectual and political divorces. And how each was a critical turning point in his thought and life.

The criterion for inclusion would be that Marx had a personal relationship with these individuals. No chapters on Hegel or Smith or Aristotle. Otherwise it would be too sprawling and insufficiently personal, more of a standard intellectual history rather than the biography of mutual minds that I have in mind.

There would be chapters on Marx and Bauer, Marx and Ruge, Marx and Hess, Marx and Grün, Marx and Feuerbach, Marx and Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin, Marx and Lasalle, and so on. There’d also be a final chapter on Marx’s one enduring love: with Engels.

[justlittlenymphothings]

Aquamanile depicting Aristotle's girlfriend, Phyllis, riding him around the garden after Aristotle warned Alexander the Great about women.

Copper Alloy, South Lowlands, 14th-15th century CE

©️📸 The MET Museum

[oldsardens]

Robert Lenkiewicz - Aristotle-Phyllis - Painter with Moira Ryan

[picard-schreckensberger]

Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

From left to right, Aristotle and Alexander, Phyllis riding Aristotle, Aged approaching the Fountain of Youth, Fountain of Youth

19th century - European Medieval style - Elephant Ivory

[thebeautifulbook]

MISCELLANEA by Angelo Poliziano (1522)

‘The Miscellanea was one of Politian’s most innovative works, a collection of essays on philology and criticism, and a far cry from the formal text-specific commentaries that had been the norm until then. It was first published in Florence in 1489, and in several subsequent editions, including this first Basel edition. This was the first use of this particular woodcut border, designed by Holbein (1497/8-1543) for the Basel printer Valentin Curio (active 1520-33). Curio’s speciality was Greek, particularly lexica and grammars; he collaborated with Cratander on a Greek lexicon, which later led to a dispute between them about reprinting rights. He also published works in German, including ones critical of the Roman Church.

‘The framework for this title-page border is created by foliage, with a couple seated around a skull at the top centre, and two men with trophies on the left and right sides (perhaps David with the head of Goliath on the right). At the bottom Holbein incorporated the legend of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which the great philosopher was so besotted by Phyllis, the lover of Alexander, that he submitted to being ridden by her.’

Full leather bound in brown calf with blind stamped panels: (on front board) a Tudor rose flanked by angels, with the initials I N beneath (applied to Julian Notary, the London stationer), and (on back board) the Tudor Royal Arms with dragon and greyhound supporters. The blind panel-stamped binding was made by Julian Notary (c.1455-c.1523), a printer and bookseller from Brittany who established himself in London in the mid-1490s. His output was mainly of liturgical and theological works, with some miscellaneous English works, usually based on the editions of others.’

source The Royal Collection Trust

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Aristotle and Phyllis, 1523 by Meister von Ottobeuren