Motif
ordered decline of regimes
ordered_decline_of_regimes
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Political Degeneration and Regime Sequences. 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 V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 20259-20385 confidence: high
The four named governments are those of Crete and Sparta, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny; tyranny is called the fourth and worst disorder of a State.
The passage sets out an ordered inquiry from aristocracy through timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny, with tyranny described as the worst disorder of a State.
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