Motif
four world ages
four_world_ages
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6419-6504 confidence: high
The passage identifies the myth of earth-born men as orthodox Hellenic tradition, the four ages as sanctioned by Hesiod and the poets, and the Republic as founded partly on the old polis and partly on contemporary Hellas, with a vision of a city in the clouds.
The passage identifies an allusion to the four ages of the world and ties it to Hesiod and the poets.
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