RE: Explain your avatar
August 6, 2015 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2015 at 3:21 pm by Pyrrho.)
(August 6, 2015 at 3:01 pm)robvalue Wrote:(August 6, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: My avatar was selected because I wanted something that would make one think of ancient Greece, which befits my name. It also is supposed to represent wine, women, and song (which I did not immediately realize when I selected it), and as I like wine, women, and song, it suits me well enough.
It always looks to me like the guy in the middle is taking the other guys out at the neck, Assassin's Creed style.
I found a larger version to look at, so you can see it better:
The one on the left is playing a flute or pipe of some kind, and the one on the right is carrying a container of either grapes or wine, while holding a horn-shaped cup (which might be made from a horn). The figure in the middle is a woman. It looks like she is joining in on the music, with little cymbals (or some such instruments) in her hands. Notice that the figures on the right and left are not human, but are some kind of divine beings.
See also:
http://carrington-arts.com/images/woodcuts.html
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.