Motif
shared ancestry explaining language affinity
shared_ancestry_explaining_language_affinity
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Social Order, Urban Exchange, and Language Kinship. 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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 8316-8399 confidence: medium
The passage compares Utopian practices to Plato’s paradoxes, links Utopians’ Greek learning to alleged shared race with Greeks, and says More adapts thoughts from the Republic and Timaeus.
The Utopians’ easy learning of Greek is explained by the fancy that they were originally of the same race as the Greeks.
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