COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nude Photography, Seven Dirty Words, Elizabethan Era
5 Apr 2017
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Heresy & obscenity: heresy the old enemy, heresy has an old and infamous history. In enlightened athens heresy was used in rare occasions to constrain actions and expressions. Mostly it was used as a political tool Aspasia, pericles" wife, was accused of offending the gods with her behavior. Anaxagoras was accused of impiety because, among other things, he said that the sun was was a rock aflame. Socrates was accused of offending the gods with his teachings: definition of heresy, noun, belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (esp. In athens it was used against political enemies. The later roman emperors adopted christianity partly because they saw in it a unifying force in an empire under pressure. Beginning with emperor constantine (ad 313) politics and religious orthodoxy went hand and hand: heresy after reformation, politics reinforced local orthodoxies even more strongly than it did before the. To be a catholic in elizabethan england was not only heretical but potentially treasonable.
