psychomachia

Their services are being sought by showbiz personalities, big business establishments, politicians who are afraid of their own shadows and people with psychomachia disorder.

2008 Usher Year of the Rat Nomadicasian 2007

But a psychomachia seems virtually the perfect vehicle for satire.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

The story is a psychomachia - which is why sex is entirely absent: all the important characters are within Chesterton and therefore male.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

We have said that The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a psychomachia, and when Auberon and Adam go off together on the twenty-first birthday, it is an end to the Romance of growing up, or perhaps of the Romance of Youth.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

Previous to Giotto, the cardinal virtues had been depicted only rarely in Italian art, although Roman - esque mosaic pavements in Pavia and Cremona show scenes of the psychomachia involving other sets of virtues.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Their portrayal is static, entirely lack - ing in the drama of the psychomachia, the combat between virtues and vices popularized since the fifth century by the manuscripts of Prudentius.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

In the revival of the motif of the psychomachia that occurs in the fifteenth century personified virtues sometimes ride on animals that symbolize their own characteristics, rather than the opposed vices.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

The material universe was transformed into a sort of vast psychomachia, an immense system of metaphors.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

i was talking about psychomachia but i kinda meant titanomachia too.

mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004