[The Roman camp, Britain.]

Posthumus:

                           So I'll fight
Against the part I come with; so I'll die
For thee, O Innogen, even for whom my life
Is every breath a death; and, thus unknown,
Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
More valour in me than my habits show.

Gods, put the strength o'th' Leonati in me.

To shame the guise o'th' world, I will begin
The fashion — less without and more within.

William Shakespeare
Cymbeline, 5.1.24-33

  
Bear and Quills heraldic device
of Hroaldr Egilsson
in the Society for Creative Anachronism
drawn by Damian von Baden

Camouflaged Ships: An Illustrated History
at the U.S. Naval Institute

  
Detection at Troynovant
solving mysteries; detective agencies

Utopias at Troynovant
utopia in power, or dystopia

Philosophy at Troynovant
nature of existence; history of ideas

Humor alloys to clarity,
we sketch ourselves:
scirtnecce rof rorrim a 
  

  
In what then does philosophic politics consist? In satisfying the city that the philosophers are not atheists, that they do not desecrate everything sacred to the city, that they reverence what the city reverences, that they are not subversives, in short, that they are not irresponsible adventurers but good citizens and even the best of citizens. This is the defense of philosophy which was required always and everywhere, whatever the regime might have been. ...

This defense of philosophy before the tribunal of the city was achieved by Plato with a resounding success. ... The effects have lasted down to the present throughout all ages except the darkest ones.

... the political action of the philosophers on behalf of philosophy has achieved full success. One sometimes wonders whether it has not been too successful.

Leo Strauss
"Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero"
On Tyranny
Revised and Expanded Edition
Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence  (1948; "Restatement" in 1954, 1963, 1991)
edited by Victor Gourevitch & Michael S. Roth