CLST 205- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 205
• Professor: Drew Griffith

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Humours also affected mental state (not just physical: no accident that sapiens related to liquid words. Jokes enforce boundaries with an inside and an outside. )e. (cid:498)in jokes(cid:499) vs. laughing at someone (cid:523)ridiculous transformed into ridicule(cid:524: transformation happened a lot in ancient times, very important element in humour is aggression. Us ---- heroes -greeks put us at the center of the world. The native english word is misdelight and the most famous descriptiom of the phenomenon in the ancient world comes form the roman author lecretius in. 14: expressing malicious triumph at another(cid:495)s distress- issai. Humour and ignorance: notion of ignorance as a necessary part of humour the incarnate word, never laughed. In the eyes of him who has all knowledge and power, nothing: charles baudelaire- (cid:498)the wise man does not laugh w/o trembling The wise man par excellence, comic exists(cid:499: hebrew god is omniscient, but the greek gods were not- whole book of the iliad is called (cid:498)the.