VIC101H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pen Name, Socalled, Alcuin
16 Apr 2013
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Human beings require that things be mysterious. Horror/ detective narrative genre the castle of otranto horace. Walpole (1764) and the murders in the rue morgue edgar allan. Prior, medieval times re-enacted miracles performed by saints. Ancient world, dramas of aeschylus (525-456 b. c), sophocles (c. 496-406 b. c), and euripides (c. 480-406 b. c) fateful actions of legendary hero and heroines. Scholars believe drama genre may have developed from rituals performed by secret mystery cults of ancient greece potentially w/ pythagoras and plato. Central purpose questions about the mystery of existence. Plato no purpose, arise simply out of superstitious traditions which put obstacles in the path of true science. Proclaimed that dialetic reasoning is the only useful method of gaining knowledge socratic practice of examining ideas logically by means of a sequence of questions and answers ignoring that. Puzzles arrive around the same time as mystery cults. Appeal to humans for the same reason.
