Characteristics in common: 1  aimed to teach or reinforce Church doctrine. 2  melodramatic: good rewarded, evil punished. 3  God and his plan were the driving forces, not the characters.
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Mesopotamia was known in antiquity as a seat of learning, and it is believed that Thales of Miletus (known as the 'first philosopher') studied there. As the Babylonians believed that water was the 'first principle' from which all else flowed, and as Thales is famous for that very claim, it seems probable he studied in the region.