Grammar
- Limited Edition
- Trivium Detail
- Ref: 654823
Grammar in the broad sense is our collective memory, our store of knowledge, our cultural capital. It is the Who, What, When and Where.
The Figure
She is a teacher, a parent, a goddess. She is Juno. She teaches the rules, history and culture to a new generation.
The 7 Squares on her dress represent the 7 Liberal Arts:
Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric (The Trivium)
Arithmatic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy (The Quadrivium)
Liberal arts: the arts to be learnt by a free man, the arts to set a man free.
The Cane or Rod
She holds a cane to draw attention to and to reinforce what is good, useful and important. It points to reasoning.
“To rule with a rod of iron.”
The Children
Her students. Knowledge from the past will inform and influence their future.
“For knowledge itself is power.” Francis Bacon
