Motif
Communal spouses and property in imagined early society
communal_spouses_and_property_in_imagined_early_society
A motif of the World Ages and Cosmic Decline 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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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6914-6987 confidence: medium
Recent enquirers are said to conclude that primitive tribes had community of wives and property, and that the captive taken by the spear was the only wife or slave a man could call his own; marriage ceremonies are treated as possible survivals.
The passage reports a theory that primitive tribes shared wives and property.
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