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==Overview==

 

Didactic art was meant both to entertain and to instruct. Didactic plays, for instance, were intended to convey a moral theme or other rich truth to the audience.<ref>[http://literarydevices.net/didacticism/ Didacticism in Morality Plays], Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref><ref>[http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#d Glossary of Literary Terms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103044158/http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm |date=2013-11-03 }}, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref> During the Middle Age, the Roman Catholic chants like the ''[[Veni Creator Spiritus]]'', as well as the Eucharistic hymns like the ''[[Adoro te devote]]'' and ''[[Pange lingua]]'' are used for fixing within prayers the truths of the Roman Catholic faith to preserve them and pass down from a generation to another. In the [[Renaissance]], the church began a [[syncretism]] between pagan and the Christian didactic art, a syncretism that reflected its dominating temporal power and recalled the controversy among the pagan and Christian aristocracy in the fourth century.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Cynthia White]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWdzlUBhFLwC&pg=PA176|title=The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective|page=176|publisher=Fortress Press|date=October 1, 2010|isbn=9780800697471|access-date=July 1, 2021|location=Minneapolis, MN|series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series|oclc=1056616571}}</ref> An example of didactic writing is [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism. An example of didactism in music is the chant ''[[Ut queant laxis]]'', which was used by [[Guido of Arezzo]] to teach [[Solfège|solfege]] syllables.

* ''[[Instructions of Kagemni]]'', by [[Kagemni I]](?) (2613–2589 BC?)

* ''[[Instruction of Hardjedef]]'', by Hardjedef (between 25th century BC and 24th century BC)

* ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'', by [[Ovid]] (1&nbsp;BC)

* ''[[Thirukkural]]'', by [[Thiruvalluvar]] (between 2nd century BC and 5th century AD)

* ''[[Remedia Amoris]]'', by [[Ovid]] (AD&nbsp;1)

* ''[[Medicamina Faciei Femineae]]'', by [[Ovid]] (between 1&nbsp;BC and AD&nbsp;8)

* [[Cynegetica (Nemesianus)|Cynegetica]], by [[Nemesianus]] (3rd century AD)

* The ''[[Jataka Tales]]'' ([[Gautama Buddha|Buddhist]] literature, 5th century AD)

* ''[[If-]]'', by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1910)

* ''[[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'', by [[Hermann Hesse]] (1952)

* ''Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life.'' by [[F. J. Harvey Darton]]<ref>[https://www2.bc.edu/~rappleb/Kingsley-Latest/KDidacticism.html Didacticism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504122400/https://www2.bc.edu/~rappleb/Kingsley-Latest/KDidacticism.html |date=2015-05-04 }}, Boston College Libraries, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013</ref>

 

 

* "Du Didactisme en Architecture / On Didacticism in Architecture". (2019). In C. Cucuzzella, C. I. Hammond, S. Goubran, & C. Lalonde (Eds.), Cahiers de Recherche du LEAP (Vol. 3). Potential Architecture Books.<ref name=":0" />

 

 

==See also==

 

==Further reading==

* [http://journalofthought.com/ ''Journal of Thought'']. United States, Journal of Thought Fund, 2002.

* Wittig, Claudia. ''Prodesse et Delectare: Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Fallstudien Zur Didaktischen Literatur Des Europäischen Mittelalters''. Germany, De Gruyter, 2019.