RenaissancePeriod of cultural, artistic, political and economic 'rebirth'
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The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries.
PhilologyThe study of language in oral and written historical sources
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The study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature.
PapyrusMaterial used in ancient times as a writing surface
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A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing.
EpicureanismAn ancient school of philosophy that teaches the pursuit of happiness and tranquility
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An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain.
EnlightenmentA European intellectual movement of the 17th to 19th centuries
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A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.