Motif
Longing for distant or imagined simplicity
longing_for_distant_or_imagined_simplicity
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 6352-6417 confidence: high
The passage says love of Lacedaemon affected Plato and Xenophon and many Athenians; Athenians imitated Lacedaemonian dress and manners and were called people with bruised ears; the passage generalizes this as longing for another church or country, imaginary simplicity, or an unreal past or future.
The passage describes Athenian admiration for Lacedaemon and generalizes it as love for another church or country at a distance, and desire for an imaginary simplicity, past, or future.
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