Phyllis riding Aristotle on badges and other media
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 55). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Yper Museum badge 1325–1374; wider story and image tradition 13th–15th centuries
Region: Western Europe
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1325 CE to 1374 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A wearable badge adapts Phyllis riding Aristotle by exaggerating his exposed genitals; related versions appear in books and other objects.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Yper Museum documents a Phyllis-riding-Aristotle badge whose exaggerated anatomy adapts the literary/manuscript scene, explicitly linking courtly and popular imagery.
What remains uncertain
The Yper badge dates to 1325–1374. Cheap wearable adaptation is documented; specific wearers, copying direction and the size of this subtype’s audience remain uncertain.
Candidate-index family 25: Phyllis riding Aristotle on badges and other media
The workbook groups records 55 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Yper Museum badge 1325–1374; wider story and image tradition 13th–15th centuries
Region: Western Europe
Shortlist uncertainty: The Yper badge dates to 1325–1374. Cheap wearable adaptation is documented; specific wearers, copying direction and the size of this subtype’s audience remain uncertain.
Workbook revision note: Narrowed to a better-evidenced form; original ID retained