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| Abandon hope, all ye who enter here |
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| at the entrance to hell in Dante's THE DIVINE COMEDY |
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| Plays that stress the illogical aspects of experience |
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| Playwright famous for writing theatre of the absurd |
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| Latin epic written by VIRGIL about Aeneas after the Trojan War |
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| denial of knowledge about the existence of God |
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| a title character in "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" from ARABIAN NIGHTS |
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| Danish writer noted for fairy tales. |
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| Belief that natural objects such as rivers or rocks possess a soul or spirit. |
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| famous Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy |
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| attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects (think the library printer) |
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| Italian priest and theologian. Most influential in Middle Ages - also a saint. |
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| most famous work of Thomas Aquinas |
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| Greek dramatist famous for comedies |
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| Saint in the Catholic Church. He wrote "The City of God" and "Confessions" 4th & 5th centuries. |
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