Motif
Conflict over an illusory image
conflict_over_an_illusory_image
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception 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 BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 22657-22822 confidence: high
Glaucon addresses Socrates and says he describes the life of the many like an oracle; mixed pleasures are called shadows and pictures of the true and are compared to Stesichorus' Greeks fighting over Helen's shadow at Troy.
The passage compares fights over mixed pleasures to Greeks fighting over the shadow of Helen at Troy in ignorance of truth.
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