According to mythology, Zeus assigned an appropriate mesure and a just limit to all beings: the government of the world thus coincides with a precious and measurable harmony, expressed in the four mottoes on the wall of the temple of Delphi: “The most beautiful is the most just,” “Observe the limit,” “Shun hubris”, “and “nothing in excess.” It was on the basis of these rules that the common sense of Beauty was established in accordance with the world view that interpreted order and harmony as that which applies a limit to “yawning Chaos,” from whose maw Hisod said that the world sprang. This was an idea placed under the protection of Apollo, who is in fact portrayed among the Muses on the western facade of the temple at Delphi
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Dinesh said: