Alcibiades' love for Socrates focuses on the beautiful figures of virtue which he thinks he sees lying beneath those "words as coarse as the hides worn by the most vulgar satyrs," which are the analog for him of Socrates' ugly, satyr-like body (215b3-4).
He's always going on about pack asses, or blacksmiths, or cobblers, or tanners… But if the arguments are opened and one sees them from the inside, he will find first that they are the only arguments with any sense in them, and next that they contain within themselves utterly divine and multitudinous figures of virtue (agalmat' aretês).
The god Apollo, a glowing figure of virtue, destroys the monster serpent of chaos, Python.
Imagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which the heroine is not a passive figure of virtue but a young woman calling the shots.
A pre-publication review in the Indian newsweekly India Today revealed that Rushdie had irreverently rewritten the life of the Prophet, the paradigmatic figure of virtue for all Muslims, naming him Mahound, the term used to identify him as a devil in medieval Christian caricature, and placing his 12 wives in a brothel.
He added that the heavy make-up, pouting lips, and despoiled hair, along with the tight-fitting bustier and full-length gloves, turned Madonna's image into a figure not of virtue, but of desire.
It was completely refurbished in the 1990s and exterior restoration required replacement of some 180 sculptural elements, including the allegorical figures of the virtues, giant vases, window embrasures and one of the columns.
Exterior restoration of the building required either restoration or replacement with replicas of some 180 sculptural elements from the tower, including the allegorical figures of the virtues, giant vases, window embrasures, and one of the columns, which had bomb damage and had merely been patched.
OF DISPUTATION about the current state of political journalism....In popular culture, the reporter has long since ceased to be a figure of civic virtue, much less of heroism or cool.
In Milan especially -- where even Prada, the fashion world's foremost purveyor of sexual remove, succumbed to the mood with hot pants -- models were sent down runways looking as if the designers had determined that grown women suddenly wanted to look like aging competitive figure skaters, loose of virtue.
Except for the way that these individuals become public figures by virtue of the saturation of the reality medium, making their self-presentation fair game for gossip and news.
