Motif
Authorized sacred and heroic praise poetry
authorized_sacred_and_heroic_praise_poetry
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 23819-23921 confidence: medium
Glaucon is addressed; eulogists say Homer educated Hellas and should guide life, while the speaker acknowledges Homer as the greatest poet and first of tragedy writers.
The passage permits hymns to gods and praises of famous men while excluding broader epic, lyric, and imitative poetry from the State.
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