Building the Microcosmos, Part 3: Ethos

The assumption of Paideia

“Cicero Denounces Catiline,” Cesare Maccari, c. 19th C.

Part 1: Logos here.

Part 2: Mythos here.

“The mythos is the very skeleton of civilization. Remove it and watch all the flesh of political stability, scientific invention, and social sophistication collapse. Myths, like the panegyrics at a Roman funeral, remind man to think and to act out of a sense of…