Motif
divine and heroic feminine exemplars contrasted with human social order
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A motif of the Sacred Feminine and Mother Goddess family, within the sub-family Female Status and Childbearing Rivalry. 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 6668-6744 confidence: medium
The passage says Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in Athene, Artemis, Antigone, and Andromache, but these ideals had no counterpart in actual life.
The passage names goddesses and heroines as noble conceptions of womanhood, but says such ideals had no counterpart in actual Athenian life.
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