"Ethos" means

a) Disposition of a culture which determines its quality, its main themes and interests

b) formal appearance of culture

c) Cultural Bias

d) nine of the above

"Ethos" is the Disposition of a culture which determines its quality, its main themes and interests.

Ethos, or character, also appears in the visual art of famous or mythological ancient Greek events in murals, on pottery, and sculpture, referred to generally as pictorial narrative. Aristotle even praised the ancient Greek painter Polygnotos because his paintings included characterization. The way in which the subject and his actions are portrayed in visual art can convey the subject’s ethical character and through this the work’s overall theme, just as effectively as poetry or drama can. This characterization portrayed men as they ought to be, which is the same as Aristotle’s idea of what ethos or character should be in tragedy.