CLST 205 Lecture 12: CLST 205 Week 12 Notes
1 Dec 2016
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Greeks desire to display physical perfection: want to embrace a realistic. Believed that warts, big noses, or flaccid extremities could be inherited: are listed as disgusting traits for entire families. Greek poetry = displayed for the public for consumption. Roman poetry = made for reading: allowed the use of word games for writers. First: physics textbook written by lucretius, follower of philosopher epicurus. Believes that a god exists, but say that they don"t give a damn about the current world: democritus says world is run buy atoms, super-small bits of stuff combined with random objects. Coined the term atom", which now means individual. Writers work is full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Example of aesop the mountain in labour". Roaring mountain= + moaning of childbirth = ridiculus mus: which means contemptible mouse. Is considered a joke: mus = mouse a monosyllables in latin. Literary parody is highest form of humour.
