Poetry, the Quadrivium, and the Trivium
The Trivium is part of a Medieval educational system that was designed to provide the student with a complete education. The Trivium is made up of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The other part of that educational system was called the Quadrivium—arithmetic (number), geometry, astronomy, and music.
You may be wondering what the Quadrivium could possibly d…
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