In our day, envy has reached its tipping point, fueling acts of anger, violence, and revenge in America’s cities and corporate boardrooms.
When toxic envy grows unchecked, it will inevitably destroy an individual, a family, a society -even a civilization. Describing the conflict as a battle in the style of Virgil's Aeneid, the Psychomachia ( Battle of Spirits or Soul War) became the most popular poem of . The Psychomachia depicted the battles between the Seven Virtues and the Seven Vices. PRUDENTIUS, PSY- CHOMACHIA: THE WAR OF THE SOUL, OR, THE BATTLE OF VIRTUES AND VICES TRANSLATED FROM AUR.Ī remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice - Civic space, the public square, and good governance - Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state - Of eyes and ostriches - Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality - Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights - From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts - A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts - Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery - Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) - Constructing regional rights - Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes - From "rites" to "rights" - Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite - An iconography for democratic adjudication. Other important sources for the Virtues and Vices include the works of Theodulf of Orleans and the “sumptuous” manuscripts of.