Motif
Civilization discovered and lost repeatedly
civilization_discovered_and_lost_repeatedly
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family World Ages and Historical Cycles. 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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6914-6987 confidence: medium
The passage stresses the limits of knowledge about early humanity and cites Plato and Aristotle as possibly right that forms of civilization were discovered and lost several times.
Plato and Aristotle are cited as possibly right that forms of civilization were discovered and lost several times over.
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