Motif
deceptive substitution of one thing for another
deceptive_substitution_of_one_thing_for_another
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Hidden Entry, Concealed Warriors, and Substitution. 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 2765-2908 confidence: medium
Socrates imagines persuading Phaedrus to buy a horse though neither knows horses, then praising an ass as if it were a horse useful in war.
Socrates uses the imagined substitution of an ass for a horse and good for evil to illustrate false persuasion.
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