Motif
authorship as public immortality
authorship_as_public_immortality
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.
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greek
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Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2636-2763 confidence: medium
Socrates says approval of a law delights the author, rejection causes mourning, and powerful ruler-orators such as Lycurgus, Solon, or Darius may gain immortality of authorship and be thought godlike.
Socrates says rulers or orators can attain an immortality of authorship in a state and be regarded as godlike by posterity or by themselves.
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