Eastern and Southern Europe
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Explanation:
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid. Ovid suggested that metamorphosis is the only rule of the universe. Metamorphoses" means "tranformations" and there are many kinds of transformations throughout the poem. Indeed, nearly everything in the story is in a process of changing. Chaos is transformed into the universe, rivers and springs are created from nothing, islands break off from the land, people change into plants and animals, gods change their shape, people are transformed by love and by hate.
The characteristics that were valued in Roman society in Ovid' metamorphosis includes:
- Ability to enforce tradition, a dear concept for ideologists in the Augustus era. The tradition of Greek and Roman legends, on which the healthy educational training of the youth was based, bestow nobility to the contents of Ovid’s writings
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- The poem aims at showing that logos and mythos are two concepts that combine very well within philosophical and scientific discourse. The didactic perspective underlines the valorisation of the mythical examples reunited into thematic catalogues
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- The poem is also an instrument for parodying the philosophical literary writings which aimed at clarifying the great issues of humanity. It is well known that Book I and Book XV of the Metamorphoses deal with philosophical topics – cosmogony, respectively
the Pythagorean theory for the creation of the universe
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The correct answer is no; avoidance of punishment
Explanation:
The theory of cognitive dissonance is based on the premise that the person strives to maintain coherence between his cognitions (convictions and opinions). When a person has a belief about something and acts differently from what he believes, a situation of dissonance occurs. Dissonance is the contradiction and one of the main sources of inconsistency in behavior. The cognitive element is a belief that the individual has about himself and the environment.
