{"id":2307,"date":"2016-10-31T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woocommerce-632430-2060185.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:19:29","slug":"why-we-are-so-fascinated-by-monsters-a-halloween-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicallatin.org\/exordium\/why-we-are-so-fascinated-by-monsters-a-halloween-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We are So Fascinated by Monsters: A Halloween Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/why-our-cultures-so-fascinated-monsters\">new post<\/a> at <em>Intellectual Takeout<\/em> discusses our obsession with the dark and monstrous. It&#8217;s a prelude to a more extensive article that will appear in a later edition of <em>The Classical Teacher:<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Dante appears on high school reading lists it is always in the form of his <em>Inferno<\/em>, but never his <em>Purgatorio<\/em> or <em>Paradiso<\/em>. One of the biggest educational publishers, Scholastic Books, is known primarily for <em>Harry Potter<\/em> and <em>The Hunger Games<\/em>&#8211;one series about witches and their relations with normal people, and the other a dystopian vision of a society in which some are selected to participate in an annual death match. Zombies, vampires and dystopian fantasy now saturate popular movies and television series in a way they never have before.<\/p>\n<p>Fear is fashionable. Terror is trendy. Monsters are mainstream. 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