The title character is accompanied by several minor-deities, including Lethe, or Oblivion, Kolakia, or Flattery, Philautia, or Self-love, and Komos, or Intemperance, and he is himself the son of Inebriation and Ignorance. The original Latin title has
The title character is accompanied by several minor-deities, including Lethe, or Oblivion, Kolakia, or Flattery, Philautia, or Self-love, and Komos, or Intemperance, and he is himself the son of Inebriation and Ignorance. The original Latin title has a double meaning, suggesting Sir Thomas More, to whom the book was dedicated. The title character praises madness and self-deception before making a satirical examination of pious superstition and practice in the Catholic Church. FTP, name this work by Erasmus, one of the most influential texts of the Reformation.
The title character is accompanied by several minor-deities, including Lethe, or Oblivion, Kolakia, or Flattery, Philautia, or Self-love, and Komos, or Intemperance, and he is himself the son of Inebriation and Ignorance.
In Praise of Folly or Moriae Encomium or Lof der Zotheid