Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Place-inspired eloquence

place_inspired_eloquence

A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Inspired Speech and Eloquence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • Phaedrus Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 154-206 confidence: medium

    Socrates detects unusual eloquence in himself and attributes it to the inspiration of a place dedicated to the nymphs.

    Socrates attributes his sudden eloquence to inspiration from a place dedicated to nymphs.

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