Motif
Love as source of heroic courage and honor
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Beloved Imagery and Poetry. 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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Symposium Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 64-148 confidence: high
Phaedrus speaks of love's antiquity and benefits, especially honor and shame, and says lovers and beloveds would form an invincible force because love inspires heroism.
Phaedrus says love creates shame before the beloved, makes an army of lovers invincible, and converts even a coward into an inspired hero.
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