Motif
degenerative cultural genealogy
degenerative_cultural_genealogy
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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Phaedrus Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE.; lines 1210-1298 confidence: medium
Later Greek literary culture is described as monotonous and creatively weak, producing Sibylline books, Orphic poems, imitations, romances, forged epistles, epigrams, meagre biographies, and a sham philosophy called the bastard progeny of Hellas and the East.
Sham philosophy is metaphorically described as the bastard progeny of the union between Hellas and the East.
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