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October 23, 2014

Aristotle

aristotleFrom the St.-Pierre church in Caen: a carving of Aristotle being ridden and flogged by Campaspe, the mistress of Alexander the Great.

Perhaps the moral lesson intended by this carving is best left to the medieval imagination.

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