Image: “The frontispiece encapsulates Hobbes’ central idea in a single image. The Leviathan – the sovereign – is a powerful crowned giant rising above the landscape, wielding both a sword (a symbol of earthly authority) and a crosier (a symbol of ecclesiastical authority). On the lower left, a castle, coronet, cannon, a trophy made up of muskets, sticks, flags and a drum, and a battlefield represent earthly power while on the right, parallel images of a church, bishop’s mitre, and an ecclesiastical dispute (conducted much like a court of law) represent ecclesiastical power.”

https://devonandexeterinstitution.org/the-frontispiece-as-a-threshold-of-interpretation-thomas-hobbes-leviathan-1651/