Motif
Postmortem shades with diminished mind
postmortem_shades_with_diminished_mind
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family, within the sub-family Shades with Diminished Mind and Earthly Fixation. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Republic PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 11800-11967 confidence: high
Verses proposed for obliteration include a preference for serfdom over ruling the dead, Pluto's fear concerning grim mansions, and a claim that Hades has soul and ghostly form but no mind.
Quoted poetic material describes dead souls as ghostly forms, flitting shades, or sapless shades, with Tiresias singled out as retaining wisdom after death.
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