Motif
Ancestral exemplars judging later imitators
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Phaedrus Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE.; lines 1210-1298 confidence: low
The passage lists rhetoricians' traits, says Plato valued genius above art, contrasts sophists and rhetoricians with ancient famous writers, and describes the Platonic Socrates as fearing disownment by the latter.
Earlier famous writers are contrasted with sophists and rhetoricians, and the Platonic Socrates fears being disowned by the earlier figures if he approves the latter.
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