Comments on: Locus Amoenus http://locus-amoenus.slcds.info/2008/06/17/locus-amoenus/ The Fourth Simulator of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jamie Palisades http://locus-amoenus.slcds.info/2008/06/17/locus-amoenus/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jamie Palisades Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:19:49 +0000 http://locus-amoenus.slcds.info/?p=4#comment-2 In literature, the name's meaning extends past its literal transaction of nice or friendly place. 'Locus amoenus' is used to mean an elegaic or idealized place of comfort, often a natural setting outside the walls of civlization. The term is redolent of, and sometimes used in references to, the Garden of Eden, and the pastoral settings in Spenser's Fairie Queen and Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_amoenus http://www.wpl.lib.in.us/roger/locus.html In literature, the name’s meaning extends past its literal transaction of nice or friendly place. ‘Locus amoenus’ is used to mean an elegaic or idealized place of comfort, often a natural setting outside the walls of civlization. The term is redolent of, and sometimes used in references to, the Garden of Eden, and the pastoral settings in Spenser’s Fairie Queen and Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream.

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