"Next, then," I said. "make an image of our nature in its education and want of education, likening it to a condition of the following kind. See human beings as though they were in an underground cave-like dwelling with its entrance, a long one, open to the light across the whole width of the cave. They are in it from childhood with their legs and necks in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only in front of them, unable because of the bond to turn their heads all the way around. Their light is from a fire burning far above and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a road above, along which we see a wall. built like the partitions puppet-handlers set in front of the human beings and over which they show the puppets".
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/platoscave.html
Plato's allegory of the cave: Book VI of the Republic
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ALLEGORY.HTM
Another Link of Plato's cave allegory
http://www.simons-rock.edu/~edw/cave/
Ed Misch's Philosophy Web Site
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/pub/slehar/webstuff/pcave/gestalt_model.html
A New Gestalt Model
http://rivertext.com/weil4.html
Mixing Art & Ideas
http://www.vrc.iastate.edu/why.html
Why call it Plato's Cave
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/cave.html
A film update of Plato's Cave?
The Three Graces
The Graces are the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. There are three Graces: Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer). They are known for there singing and dancing for the Gods.
http://www.loggia.com/myth/graces.html
The Three Graces in Myth
Are they related to the furies of fates, those three Graces?Armfuls of blossoming flowers, clothed in roses, marigolds, and anemones; hair full of daisies, it is Thalia, the Grace Bloom.
Lit up by rays of sunlight, clothed in reflective gold, silver and sparkling diamond, blindly shining, it is Aglaia, the Grace Brilliance.
The One so happy, upon her face a wide smile, eyes agleam, clothed in ribbons and a dance, it is Euphrosyne, the Grace Joy.
Thalia, the Grace of Bloom, is a productive thinker. She guides the bud to blossom into bloom, drops its petals to grow into fruit. She is beauty.Thalia guides man the artisan to make useful things of beauty, such as the clothes we wear, the house we live in, furniture and such.
Euphrosyne, the Grace of Joy, is a practical thinker. She is goodness. She guides man the doer in the course of his social actions. Man capable of doing right or wrong, achiever of happiness or not, right is doing goodness and results in joy.
Aglaia, the Grace of Brilliance, is a speculative thinker. She is Truth. She guides man the Knower in the learning and acquiring of all sorts of Knowledge. Knowledge shall lead to truth and truth is brilliant.
The Fates
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/MOERAE.html
MOERAE
The Goddess of Necessity, Themis, brought forth three lovely daughters, known as The Fates. All living things must eventually submit to these divine daughters of Zeus and Themis. Their names are: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
Life is woven by Clotho, measured by Lachesis and finally, in a very literal sense, the thread of life is cut by Atropos. They laugh at our feeble attempts to cheat them because they always prevail.
http://www.loggia.com/myth/fates.html
The Fates in Mythology
http://www.theoi.com/Khaos/Moirai.html
THE MOIRAI
The Furies
The Furies are perhaps the most terrifying spectres of the ancient world. They are three sisters whose purpose in the world is purely vengeance. They were called the Dirae, the Furies, by the Ancient Greeks. They were called the Erinyes. But they were also called the Eumenides which means "The Kindly Ones."
"Not even the sun will transgress his orbit but the Erinyes, the ministers of justice, overtake him."
http://www.bartleby.com/8/3/
The Furies by Aeschylus
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6542/furies.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/eumendides.html
Eumenides By Aeschylus
http://www.temple.edu/classics/furies.html
http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates021d.html
http://www.thanasis.com/modern/furies.htm
http://www.megaera.org/Megaera/fury.html
In Roman mythology, the Furies also known as the Dirae (The Terrible) (Erinyes or Erinnyes (The Angry Ones) in Greek mythology) are three sisters: Alecto (The Unceasing or The Endless who was their leader), Megaera (The Grudging or The Envious Rager) and Tisiphone (The Avenging or The Retaliator). There are two accounts of their creation. One account has it that they came into being when the blood produced by Cronus castrating his father Uranus splashed upon the Earth, Gæa. The other account has it that they were mothered by Gæa with air and bad human emotions and deeds such as murder, perjury, disrespect, ingratitude, harshness, and violation of filial piety and the laws of hospitality.
http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/texts/eumenides.html
http://www.olympian-foundation.org/eumenides.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/aesch/eumend.htm
Ode to a cicada
A struggle out of darkness,
earthen ground dweller...
Tunneling lifelong through rich loamy humus,
years spent unbeknownst to those above
or if indeed known,
considered as just another grub,
small in size,
but mighty in ancestry.
Its ancestors were ancient
when hairy mammoth and saber tooth tiger roamed
when large dinosaurs munched and stomped.
Struggling out of darkness,
lifting out of earth and into light of day,
first seeing of light
first taste of freely blowing air
first feel of the wind,
into the light, the grub is now winged.
Instinct to climb high toward the bright,
instinct to call... to sing.
During the day, it climbs upwards
scaling the bark of trunk of tree,
and come up to the darkness of night.
Upon the currents of air,
once former grub proclaims its newly found freedom,
and through the air, heard and felt.
Fog & Mist
I watch the gray swirling mist...
rising up above from amongst the trees.
I catch sight of sparkling gleams from...
watery diamonds set upon leaves by a night rain.
Nocturnal's quiet rain deftly intercepted,
from a straight downward trek;
A pitter patter of cascading droplets,
side-stepping and hopping from leaf-to-leaf,
within a sea of greens and browns,
earthward bound, soaking into the ground.
I watch the gray foggy mist...
burn away into the rising sun,
slowly, surely, the sky changes to hues of blue,
as a shakened rain moves about...
falling towards the moist leafy forest floor,
tree leaves vibrated by dancing squirrels,
prancing, chasing in acrobatic style,
leaping from branch to leafy branch...
of trees filled with a symphony of bird song...
in a greeting of a new dawned day.
as black sky lightens and turns to shades of gray,
the night sounds cease and...
birds sing greeting of the day.
Gradually by subtle degrees the sky illumination grows,
shift in the air, and a chill wind blows...
always coldest before the dawn,
and off runs a motherless startled spotted fawn,
feet rustling sounds among fallen dried leaves,
as more-and-more birds join in chorus from among the trees.
Light enough now to see...
no sunrise colors nor sky of blue
clouds amassed in puffs of white and shades of gray,
still without a sun-star true
I participated in the greeting of the day.
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who lived between 580-520 B.C. He founded a school in Croton, which made outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics. Pythagoras and his cult members believed that everything was related to mathematics and agreed that, ultimately, "all is number". Pythagoras is also famous for his study of sound and his theorem relating the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.
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