dramatic literature: Drama and communal belief: The religious drama of ancient Greece, the temple drama of early India and Japan, the mystery cycles of medieval Europe, all have in common more than their religious content: when the theatre is a place of worship, its drama goes to the roots of belief in…

religious dress, any attire, accoutrements, and markings used in religious rituals that may be corporate, domestic, or personal in nature. Such dress may comprise types of coverings all the way from the highly symbolic and ornamented eucharistic vestments of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to

dualism, in philosophy, the use of two irreducible, heterogeneous principles (sometimes in conflict, sometimes complementary) to analyze the knowing process (epistemological dualism) or to explain all of reality or some broad aspect of it (metaphysical dualism). Examples of epistemological dualism

Martin Buber: From Vienna to Jerusalem: Buber as an educator tried to refute these ideological “prejudices of youth,” who, he asserted, rightly criticize outworn images of God but wrongly identify them with the imageless living God himself.

religious experience, specific experience such as wonder at the infinity of the cosmos, the sense of awe and mystery in the presence of the sacred or holy, feeling of dependence on a divine power or an unseen order, the sense of guilt and anxiety accompanying belief in a divine judgment, or the

religious experience: Objective intention, or reference: …historian, showed in his classic Religious Experience of the Roman People (1911), the task of elucidating the role of religion in Roman society can be accomplished without settling the question of the validity or cognitive import of the religious feelings, ideas, and beliefs in question. The empirical investigator, as such,…

Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), (1993), U.S. legislation that originally prohibited the federal government and the states from “substantially burden[ing] a person’s exercise of religion” unless “application of the burden…is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest” and “is the

religious symbolism and iconography, respectively, the basic and often complex artistic forms and gestures used as a kind of key to convey religious concepts and the visual, auditory, and kinetic representations of religious ideas and events. Symbolism and iconography have been utilized by all the

Eastern Orthodoxy: The episcopate: …theology also emphasizes that the office of bishop is the highest among the sacramental ministries and that there is therefore no divinely established authority over that of the bishop in his own community, or diocese. Neither the local churches nor the bishops, however, can or should live in isolation. The…

Islam: Social service: …idea of a closely knit community of the faithful who are declared to be “brothers unto each other.” Muslims are described as “the middle community bearing witness on humankind,” “the best community produced for humankind,” whose function it is “to enjoin good and forbid evil” (Qurʾān). Cooperation and “good advice”…

study of religion: Empiricism and pragmatism: …to exhibit the nature of religious language could have been a chiefly descriptive task, but, in fact, most analyses have occurred in the context of questions of truth. Thus, some scholars have been concerned with exhibiting how it is possible to hold religious beliefs in an empiricist framework, others with…

family law: Religion: Religion has had a strong influence on marriage law, often providing the main basis of its authority. Hindu family law, which goes back at least 4,000 years (and may be the oldest known system), is a branch of dharma—that is, the aggregate of religious,…

fable, parable, and allegory: Diversity of media: …time immemorial men have carved religious monuments and have drawn and painted sacred icons. Triumphal arches and chariots have symbolized glory and victory. Religious art makes wide use of allegory, both in its subject matter and in its imagery (such as the cross, the fish, the lamb). Even in poetry…

meditation, private devotion or mental exercise encompassing various techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction, regarded as conducive to heightened self-awareness, spiritual enlightenment, and physical and mental health. Meditation has been practiced throughout history by

study of religion: Other sociological studies: An extensive literature on religious sects and similar groups has also developed. To some extent this has been influenced by the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch in his distinction between church and sect (see below Theological studies). Notable among modern investigators of sectarianism is the British scholar Bryan Wilson. Church organizations…

choral music: Sacred music:

Good Shepherd Sister, member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, a Roman Catholic order of nuns devoted to helping people in poor and marginalized communities, especially girls and women. The order was formerly called the Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Good

Good Shepherd Sister, member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, a Roman Catholic order of nuns devoted to helping people in poor and marginalized communities, especially girls and women. The order was formerly called the Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Good

Society of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ), Roman Catholic religious congregation of women devoted to the education of girls. The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in France in 1800 by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat. In the late 1700s Joseph Varin, a leader in the religious renewal in France following

Hinduism: Religious orders and holy men: Members of the various denominations who abandon all worldly attachment enter an “inner circle” or “order” that, seeking a life of devotion, adopts or develops particular vows and observances, a common cult, and some form of initiation.

Egypt: Religious life: …rulers of Egypt had seldom interfered with the lives of their Christian and Jewish subjects so long as these groups paid the special taxes (known as jizyah) levied on them in exchange for state protection. Indeed, both Copts and Jews had always served in the Muslim bureaucracy, sometimes in the…

rationalism: Religious rationalism: Stirrings of religious rationalism were already felt in the Middle Ages regarding the Christian revelation. Thus, the skeptical mind of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) raised doubts by showing in his Sic et non (“Yes and No”) many contradictions among beliefs handed down as revealed…

revivalism, generally, renewed religious fervour within a Christian group, church, or community, but primarily a movement in some Protestant churches to revitalize the spiritual ardour of their members and to win new adherents. Revivalism in its modern form can be attributed to that shared emphasis

ritual, the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behavior exhibited by all known societies. It is thus possible to view ritual as a way of defining or describing humans. Human beings are sometimes described or

St. Benedict: Rule of St. Benedict: …among all the monastic and religious rules of the Middle Ages. Benedict’s advice to the abbot and to the cellarer, and his instructions on humility, silence, and obedience have become part of the spiritual treasury of the church, from which not only monastic bodies but also legislators of various institutions…

Religious Science, religious movement founded in the United States by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960). Holmes and his brother Fenwicke were drawn to New Thought teachings and to a belief in the power of the mind for healing and fulfillment of life. In 1926 Holmes’s major work, The Science of Mind, was

Friends General Conference, continental association of several yearly and monthly meetings of Friends (Quakers) in the United States. It developed from the divisions among the Friends that began in 1827, when the Philadelphia yearly meeting separated into two groups because of theological and

Society of Friends, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the “Inner Light,” or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms. As most powerfully expressed by George Fox (1624–91), Friends felt that

religious symbolism and iconography, respectively, the basic and often complex artistic forms and gestures used as a kind of key to convey religious concepts and the visual, auditory, and kinetic representations of religious ideas and events. Symbolism and iconography have been utilized by all the

religious syncretism, the fusion of diverse religious beliefs and practices. Instances of religious syncretism—as, for example, Gnosticism (a religious dualistic system that incorporated elements from the Oriental mystery religions), Judaism, Christianity, and Greek religious philosophical

Scientology: Organization of the church: The Religious Technology Center (RTC) has ultimate ecclesiastical authority for the teachings of Scientology, owns all the movement’s trademarks, and grants the churches and organizations their licenses. The RTC is also charged with ensuring that the church’s procedures are followed fully and that its “spiritual technology”…

Czechoslovak history: Re-Catholicization and absolutist rule: …the peasants, and he granted religious toleration. After the long period of oppression, these were hailed as beacons of light, although they did not go as far as enlightened minds expected. In fact, Joseph’s Edict of Toleration was not followed by a mass defection from the Roman Catholic Church in…

Czechoslovak history: Re-Catholicization and absolutist rule: …the peasants, and he granted religious toleration. After the long period of oppression, these were hailed as beacons of light, although they did not go as far as enlightened minds expected. In fact, Joseph’s Edict of Toleration was not followed by a mass defection from the Roman Catholic Church in…

Maryland: The colony of Maryland: …Religion, later famous as the Act of Religious Toleration. It granted freedom of worship, though only within the bounds of Trinitarian Christianity. One of the earliest laws of religious liberty, it was limited to Christians and repealed in 1692. Commercial disputes with Anglican Virginia and boundary quarrels with Quaker Pennsylvania…

rite of passage: Ceremonies of religious transformation: Religious transformation ceremonies signal changes in religious status, which may be matters of the greatest importance to the people. Making sacrifices and offerings are rituals that may be required in the normal course of life; further, these acts may be regarded…

Christianity: Freedom and responsibility: …expressed the theme of Christian vocation developed by Luther and Calvin, which they applied to all Christians and to everyday responsibility for the neighbour and for the world. The reformers emphasized that Christian service is not limited to a narrow religious sphere of life but extends to the everyday relationships…

worship: Sacred seasons: Worship takes place at appointed seasons and places. The religious calendar is thus of great importance for the worshipping community, since communities associate worship with critical times in the life of the society. The hunting, planting, and harvesting seasons are of special importance.…

fundamentalism: Religious Zionism: Despite the hostility of most Orthodox rabbis, Zionism aroused considerable enthusiasm among many Orthodox Jews who saw in it the promise of the long-awaited messianic redemption. Some Orthodox rabbis, therefore, sought to legitimate Orthodox participation in the Zionist movement. Rabbi Yitzḥaq Yaʿaqov Reines…

Israel: Premiership of Yair Lapid: …their support to the far-right Religious Zionism party (led by Bezalel Smotrich), which had staunchly opposed the willingness of Bennett, Lieberman, and even Netanyahu after the last election to entertain a coalition with parties that represent Palestinian citizens of Israel. In October the party gained additional momentum after presenting a…

Bill Maher: …and produced the irreverent documentary Religulous (2008), in which he interviewed people of various faiths, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

art conservation and restoration: Paintings on canvas: …also referred to as “relining.” A number of techniques and adhesives have been employed for lining, but with all methods there is a risk of altering the surface texture of the painting if the procedure is not carried out with the utmost care and skill. The most frequently used…

ceremonial object: Relics: …as is the production of reliquaries, or shrines that contain relics. The size, form, and materials of reliquaries vary greatly and often depend on the nature of the relic being exhibited. They may be fixed but are generally portable so that they can be carried in processions or on pilgrimages.…

Chinese architecture: The Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties: …be seen in the 13th-century Reliquary Hall of the Engaku Temple. It features unpainted wood siding with multilevel paneled walls (no plaster wall or lacquered columns) and much attention to elaborative detail. The effect is rich and dynamic and displays none of the simplicity one might expect of Chan architecture,…

enamelwork: 15th century to the present: European: …earliest surviving examples is the Reliquary of the Holy Thorn (in the Waddesdon bequest in the British Museum): the Holy Thorn, set in a gem, is surrounded by the Last Judgment scene, in which all the figures (20) are enamelled, many of them being executed wholly in the round. The…

ballad revival: …the publication of Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a collection of English and Scottish traditional ballads. The Reliques and a flood of subsequent collections, including Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802), had great impact and provided the English Romantic poets with an alternative to outworn…

Richard Baxter: His autobiographical Reliquiae Baxterianae, or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times (1696), still of interest, gives an account of his inner spiritual struggles.

relish, vegetable side dish that typically is eaten in small quantities with a blander main dish. Relishes are frequently finely cut vegetables or fruit in sour, sweet-sour, or spicy sauce. They often are used to enhance or to add flavour to dishes because of their contrasting texture and spicy or

Relizane, town, northwestern Algeria, near Wadi Mîna, which is a tributary of the Chelif River. Built near the ruined Roman settlement of Mina, modern Relizane is a typical French-style town of wide streets and parks. It is surrounded by orchards and gardens, and a large area of cropland is

Relizian Stage, major division of Miocene rocks and time on the Pacific coast of North America (the Miocene epoch began 23.7 million years ago and ended 5.3 million years ago). The Relizian Stage, which overlies the Saucesian Stage and precedes the Luisian Stage, was named for exposures studied in

James Relly was a Welsh Methodist minister and revivalist who influenced the development of Universalism, a theological position held by some Christians, according to which all human souls will achieve salvation. Relly argued that Jesus Christ’s unity with all human beings, his assumption of their

Metallica: …Load (1996) and its follow-up Reload (1997). The two albums were seen as more commercially accessible than previous releases, and “The Memory Remains,” a song featuring haunting backing vocals by Marianne Faithfull, demonstrated that Hetfield retained his knack for aggressive and intelligent lyrics. However, the driving thrash metal sound of…

radar: Over-the-horizon radar: …OTH radars known as relocatable over-the-horizon radar (ROTHR), or AN/TPS-71, have been redirected for use in drug interdiction. Such radars, located in Virginia, Texas, and Puerto Rico, provide multiple coverage of drug-traffic regions in Central America and the northern part of South America. An ROTHR can cover a 64-degree…

Antonio de Guevara: by Lord Berners, The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, 1535, and by Sir Thomas North, The Diall of Princes, 1557, frequently reprinted through the 20th century), an attempt to invent a model for rulers, became one of the most influential books of the 16th century. Well received outside…

electromagnet: …rϕ, where r is the reluctance of the magnetic circuit and is equivalent to resistance in the electric circuit. Reluctance is obtained by dividing the length of the magnetic path l by the permeability times the cross-sectional area A; thus r = l/μA, the Greek letter mu, μ, symbolizing the…

electric motor: Reluctance motors: Reluctance motors operate on the principle that forces are established that tend to cause iron poles carrying a magnetic flux to align with each. One form of reluctance motor is shown in cross section in the figure. The rotor consists of four iron…

Vincente Minnelli: Films of the later 1950s: Lust for Life, Gigi, and Some Came Running: The class satire The Reluctant Debutante (1958) seemed humble compared with the lavish Gigi, but this English comedy of manners was a fairly expensive production. An American teenager (Sandra Dee) visiting her father (Rex Harrison) and stepmother (Kay Kendall) in London is hurled into the debutante season. Some…

Mira Nair: Feature films: …American aviator Amelia Earhart, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), which follows a Pakistani émigré wrestling with his cultural identity in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The biopic Queen of Katwe (2016) depicts the life of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, who overcame extreme poverty to become a grandmaster.

Ed Bullins: …One (1971) and the novel The Reluctant Rapist (1973).

Eugene Levy: Later work: ’ ” The resulting travelogue, The Reluctant Traveler, debuted that year, and it highlighted Levy’s warmth and deadpan humor.

ignition system: …a magnetic device, called a reluctor, that is operated by the distributor shaft to produce timed electric signals, which are amplified and used to control the current to the induction coil. These newer ignition systems are more reliable than the old, permit better control of the engine, and produce higher-voltage…

ignition system: The reluctor ring is mounted on the crankshaft so that as the crankshaft rotates the magnetic sensor is triggered by notches in the reluctor ring. The magnetic sensor provides position information to the electronic control module, which governs ignition timing.

rem, unit of radiation dosage (such as from X rays) applied to humans. Derived from the phrase Roentgen equivalent man, the rem is now defined as the dosage in rads that will cause the same amount of biological injury as one rad of X rays or gamma rays. Formerly poorly defined, the rem was

REM sleep, one of two phases in the sleep cycle, in which a person experiences dreams, atonia (reduced muscle tone), irregular closed eye movements, and elevated levels of brain activity. The other phase of the human sleep cycle is known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. A single sleep cycle,

sleep: Parasomnias: REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a disease in which the sleeper acts out the dream content. The main characteristic of the disorder is a lack of the typical muscle paralysis seen during REM sleep. The consequence is that the sleeper is no longer able…

Moses ben Israel Isserles was a Polish-Jewish rabbi and codifier who, by adding notes on Ashkenazic customs to the great legal digest Shulḥan ʿarukh of the Sephardic codifier Joseph Karo, made it an authoritative guide for Orthodox Jews down to the present day. A precocious scholar, Isserles became

Angélique Kidjo: …covered the Talking Heads album Remain in Light (1980), and the following year she paid homage to Cuban American singer Celia Cruz with Celia. Mother Nature appeared in 2021.

arithmetic: Fundamental theory: …and r is called the remainder. Using a process known as the Euclidean algorithm, which works because the GCD of a and b is equal to the GCD of b and r, the GCD can be obtained without first factoring the numbers a and b into prime factors. The Euclidean…

remainder, in Anglo-American law, a future interest held by one person in the property of another, which, upon the happening of a certain event, will become his own. The holder of this interest is known in legal terms as a remainderman. The law recognizes two types of remainder interests: the

synthetic division: Based on the remainder theorem, it is sometimes called the method of detached coefficients.

St. John Henry Newman: Association with the Oxford movement: …Newman and Keble published Froude’s Remains, in which the Reformation was violently denounced, moderate men began to suspect their leader. Their worst fears were confirmed in 1841 by Newman’s Tract 90, which, in reconciling the Church of England’s doctrinal Thirty-nine Articles with the teaching of the ancient and undivided church,…

The Remains of the Day, novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989. The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s first novel set outside his native Japan and in his adopted England, is typical of Ishiguro’s style: delicate, detailed, and evocative prose which reveals the perceived flaws in a central

Merchant and Ivory: By the time The Remains of the Day was released in 1993, the filmmaking team was well established. The movie, an adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel, received an Oscar nomination for best picture, and Ivory was nominated a third time for his directing. Their 1996 film, Surviving Picasso, continued…

Moses Kimhi was a European author of an influential Hebrew grammar, Mahalakh shevile ha-daʿat (“Journey on the Paths of Knowledge”). The elder son of the grammarian and biblical exegete Joseph Kimhi and teacher of his more renowned brother, David Kimhi, he shared with them the accomplishment of

Robert Remak was a German embryologist and neurologist who discovered and named (1842) the three germ layers of the early embryo: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. He also discovered nonmedullated nerve fibres (1838) and the nerve cells in the heart (1844) called Remak’s ganglia, and he

magnet: Magnetization process: Br is the remanent flux density and is the residual, permanent magnetization left after the magnetizing field is removed; this latter is obviously a measure of quality for a permanent magnet. It is usually measured in webers per square metre. In order to demagnetize the specimen from its…

Jan Hus: Leader of Czech reform movement: …teaching was his tenet of remanence—i.e., that the bread and wine in the Eucharist retain their material substance. Wycliffe also declared the Scriptures to be the sole source of Christian doctrine. Hus did not share all of Wycliffe’s radical views, such as that on remanence, but several members of the…

remanent magnetism, the permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and continental drift. Remanent magnetism can

remanent magnetism, the permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and continental drift. Remanent magnetism can

parole: …his sentence (known as the remanet).

aerospace industry: Remanufacture and upgrading: The most elaborate type of program under the general heading of maintenance is the remanufacturing process. Performed at aircraft-manufacturing facilities, remanufacture is a measure that combines a general overhaul with an upgrade of some of the aircraft’s systems. The latter process often…

spatial memory: Place cells, head-direction cells, and grid cells: …at all, a property called remapping. Sensory information from the environment, such as colours and textures, plays an important role in remapping, while a place cell’s preferred firing location often reflects information concerning the distance and direction to environmental boundaries. Boundary cells, which are found in brain areas that provide…

Erich Maria Remarque was a novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I. Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and

Stuart Heisler: Films of the 1940s: The Remarkable Andrew, from a fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden). Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had…

Otago: Wanaka, and Hawea; the Remarkables (rising to 6,798 feet [2,072 metres]) and other inland ranges; and the Clutha River, New Zealand’s largest river by volume, which empties into the Pacific near the towns of Balclutha and Kaitangata.

Joseph Addison: Early life: …which he wrote the prose Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705; rev. ed. 1718) and the poetic epistle A Letter from Italy (1704). From Italy Addison crossed into Switzerland, where, in Geneva, he learned in March 1702 of the death of William III and the consequent loss of power…

Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: Return to England.: …an opposition journal, were the “Remarks on the History of England” (1730–31) and “A Dissertation upon Parties” (1733–34), both of which sought to end the old Whig–Tory disputes and to weld the disparate elements of the opposition to Walpole into a new Country Party, which would protect the independence of…

Erich Maria Remarque was a novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I. Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and

Paulette Goddard was an American actress known for her spirited persona and for her association with Charlie Chaplin. Goddard worked as a fashion model in her early teens, and at age 16 she appeared as a chorus girl in the Broadway revue No Foolin’. Within the next four years, she married,

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de Marbot: …period, whose book on war, Remarques critiques, prompted Napoleon to leave him a legacy.

Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas: In his Remarques sur la langue françoise, utiles à ceux qui veulent bien parler et bien escrire (1647; “Remarks on the French Language, Useful for Those Who Wish to Speak Well and Write Well”), Vaugelas recorded what he considered good usage: the speech of the “soundest” elements…

Rembang, city, Central Java (Jawa Tengah) propinsi (province), Java, Indonesia. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Surabaya. A major port on the Java Sea, it is linked by road and railway with Kudus and Semarang to the southwest and with Cepu and Surabaya to the southeast. Exports

methylene blue, a bright greenish blue organic dye belonging to the phenothiazine family that has various applications in medicine and in the dyeing of textiles. Methylene blue is employed as a biological stain, in testing for bacterial infection underlying tuberculosis, and as a chemical

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

Rembrandt House Museum, museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the life and work of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The Rembrandt House Museum is located in the house where Rembrandt lived from 1639 to 1658. The building was constructed in 1606–07, and Rembrandt purchased it in 1639. Financial troubles

Rembrandt Research Project (RRP), an interdisciplinary collaboration by a group of Dutch art historians to produce a comprehensive catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn’s paintings. Its initial aim was to free Rembrandt’s oeuvre of the attributions that were thought to have harmed the image of Rembrandt as

Bernard Malamud: …Pictures of Fidelman (1969), and Rembrandt’s Hat (1973). The Stories of Bernard Malamud appeared in 1983, and The People, and Uncollected Stories was published posthumously in 1989. The People, an unfinished novel, tells the story of a Jewish immigrant adopted by a 19th-century American Indian tribe. One critic spoke of…

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

remdesivir, antiviral drug that is active against SARS-CoV-2, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir is administered by intravenous infusion in patients who are hospitalized or who are at high risk of severe COVID-19, including adults and adolescents as well as children age 28

Ovid: Works of Ovid: …by a mock recantation, the Remedia amoris, also a burlesque of an established genre, which can have done little to make amends for the Ars. The possibilities for exploiting love-elegy were now effectively exhausted, and Ovid turned to new types of poetry in which he could use his supreme narrative…