Motif
Isolated master fearing revolt of dependents
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A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Tyrants' Fear, War, and Vengeance. 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 22137-22315 confidence: high
Socrates asks the interlocutor to imagine a rich owner of about fifty slaves, with family, property, and slaves, carried by a god into a wilderness where no freemen can help him.
The illustration imagines a slave-owner removed from civic protection into the wilderness, where he fears being killed by his slaves.
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