Myths always played an important role in human societies. ... Music could play a similar role, communicating situations and emotions by sounds and harmony. ... Spectators were seated on a hillside to view these early "plays". ... He deviates from morality or from a full knowledge of his situation, and his deviation destroys him .In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex the hero is a good-hearted but headstrong young man who kills his own father and marries his mother without knowing that they are his parents. ... Chaucer (1340-1400) used the word in Troilus and Criseyde, and in The Canterbury Tales it ...

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These are a belief in the existence of the Deity, the duty to worship such a power, the identification of worship with practical morality, the obligation to repent of sin and to abandon it, and divine recompense in this world and the next. ... Also, there was the common view that belief in an immortal soul that would be punished for sin and rewarded for virtue was a vital support for morality. If the Jews were soft on the immortality of the soul, then they may be considered to be soft on morality. ... The Jewish-Islamic Medieval mystical tradition also approached this. ...

• Word Count: 2438
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In the age of medieval Christian thought, classical authorities reigned supreme as the ultimate source of knowledge about what was right and what was wrong. ... This is so because they both make an attempt to de-emphasize the role that authority has played in Europe in the sixteenth century. The role of acquiring knowledge plays in both works is one of great magnitude. ... For example, Montaigne encourages students to "be satisfied with correcting himself without being seen to reproach others for doing things he would not do himself and without flouting public morality- (47). ...

• Word Count: 2020
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate