batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l21842-l21983
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l21842-l21983
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 21842-21983
start: '21842'
end: '21983'
translation: The Republic
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: "“Love is the lord of the house within him, and orders all the concerns of
his soul.”"
summary: The passage analyzes the origin and condition of the tyrannical person.
It describes unlawful appetites emerging when reason sleeps, disciplined preparation
for sleep that brings the soul nearer to truth, the descent from democratic character
to tyrannical character through corrupt companions, and the installation of Love
or master passion as an inner tyrant accompanied by madness.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker introduces the tyrannical man as the last character type to be
examined and asks how he is formed from the democratic type and whether he lives
happily or miserably.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker distinguishes unlawful unnecessary appetites, saying they exist
in everyone but are controlled by law, reason, and better desires in some people.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: When the reasoning, human, ruling power is asleep, a wild beast within the
person is described as rising after being filled with meat or drink and becoming
ready for extreme unlawful acts.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A temperate person prepares for sleep by awakening rational powers, feeding
them noble thoughts, moderating bodily appetites, quieting passion, and leaving
reason free to contemplate the unknown.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage states that all people, even good people, have a lawless wild-beast
nature that appears in sleep.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The democratic man is recalled as having developed from training under a miserly
parent, later exposure to licentious companions, and a resulting moderate indulgence
in varied pleasures.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The son of the democratic man is imagined as being drawn into a lawless life
called perfect liberty by seducers, while opposing parties support his moderate
and excessive desires.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The seducers are said to implant a master passion in the son, described as
lord over idle and spendthrift lusts and imaged as a monstrous winged drone.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Other lusts gather around the master passion amid incense, perfumes, garlands,
wines, and pleasures of dissolute life, nourishing the sting of desire.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: The lord of the soul, with Madness as captain of his guard, destroys good
opinions, shame, and temperance, bringing madness fully into the person.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker says that Love has been called a tyrant and associates tyrannical
spirit with drunkenness, derangement, lust, and passion.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: obs:12
text: The tyrannical person is described as living among feasts, carousals, revellings,
courtesans, and similar things, with Love ordering the soul as lord of the inner
house.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: tyrannical man
description: The human character type under examination, formed from the democratic
type and governed by drunkenness, lust, passion, and Love as inner lord.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: democratic man
description: The predecessor character type, generated from the oligarchic type
and living in moderate indulgence among varied pleasures.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: son of the democratic man
description: The imagined son who is drawn into lawless life and becomes the subject
in whom tyrannical passion is implanted.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: miserly parent
description: The parent of the democratic man who encouraged saving appetites and
discouraged unnecessary appetites.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: seducers / dire magicians and tyrant-makers
description: Corrupting companions who draw the son toward lawless life and implant
a master passion in him.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: wild beast within
description: A lawless inner nature that appears when reason sleeps and is associated
with uncontrolled appetite.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: reason / rational powers
description: The reasoning and ruling power of the person, awakened by noble thoughts
and meditation and left free to contemplate the unknown.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Love / master passion
description: The implanted ruling passion, called lord of the soul and later lord
of the inner house; also said to have been called a tyrant.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:11
- ev:13
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Madness
description: Personified as captain of the guard for the lord of the soul during
the tyrannical person’s frenzy.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: tyrannical character under analysis
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage asks how the tyrannical man is formed and how he lives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:13
- id: role:2
label: predecessor character type
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The tyrannical type is examined as arising from the democratic type, and
the democratic man’s origin is recalled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: corrupted descendant
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The son of the democratic man is drawn into lawless life and receives the
implanted master passion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: formative parent
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The miserly parent trains the earlier democratic man by encouraging saving
appetites and discouraging unnecessary ones.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: corrupting agents
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The seducers draw the son toward lawless life and contrive to implant a master
passion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: lawless inner appetite
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The wild beast is described as rising when reason sleeps and as present in
everyone’s sleep.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: inner ruling faculty
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Reason is named the human and ruling power and is awakened by disciplined
preparation for sleep.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: inner tyrant or master passion
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Love or the master passion is described as lord over lusts, lord of the soul,
and lord of the inner house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:11
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: attendant of frenzy
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Madness is named as captain of the guard for the lord of the soul.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wild beast within
literal_form: lawless wild-beast nature inside the person
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: sleep of reason
literal_form: the reasoning, human, ruling power asleep
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: monstrous winged drone
literal_form: image used for the implanted master passion ruling idle and spendthrift
lusts
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: sting of desire
literal_form: the sting nourished in the drone-like nature by surrounding lusts
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:5
label: lord of the house within
literal_form: Love ruling and ordering the concerns of the soul as a house
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:6
label: pleasures of dissolute life
literal_form: incense, perfumes, garlands, wines, feasts, carousals, revellings,
and courtesans
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Unlawful appetites when reason sleeps
summary: The speaker describes unlawful unnecessary appetites that become active
when reason is asleep, using the image of an inner wild beast that may pursue
any crime or forbidden act.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: scene:2
label: Disciplined preparation for sleep
summary: A temperate person awakens reason with noble thoughts, moderates bodily
appetites, quiets passion, and thus comes nearest to truth and avoids lawless
visions.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Genealogy of democratic and tyrannical character
summary: The democratic man is recalled as arising from a miserly upbringing and
licentious influences; his son is then imagined as being drawn farther into lawless
life by seducers.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Implanting the master passion
summary: The seducers implant a master passion, imaged as a monstrous winged drone,
while surrounding lusts nourish its sting with sensual pleasures.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Love and Madness rule the soul
summary: The lord of the soul enters frenzy with Madness as captain, expels shame
and good principles, and replaces temperance with madness; the tyrannical life
is then described as ruled by Love.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Inner wild beast released when reason sleeps
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage explicitly describes a lawless wild-beast nature that rises when
the reasoning power is asleep and peers out in sleep even in good people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is a philosophical image rather than a narrative episode about an
external animal.
- id: motif:2
label: Rational discipline as approach to truth
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage says that a person who awakens reason, meditates, and quiets
irrational principles before sleep comes nearest to truth and is least subject
to lawless visions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage concerns psychic discipline
rather than a mythic wisdom quest.
- id: motif:3
label: Conflict between rational and irrational principles in the soul
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage contrasts reason with appetites and passion, and describes pacifying
two irrational principles while rousing reason.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage names more than two parts of the soul, so the taxonomy reference
to duality should be treated as approximate.
- id: motif:4
label: Corruption into tyranny through seduction and implanted passion
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The son is drawn into lawless life by seducers, who implant a master passion
that becomes lord over his lusts.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is ethical-psychological and political rather than a conventional
mythic plot.
- id: motif:5
label: Love as inner tyrant
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says Love has been called a tyrant and describes Love as lord
of the inner house ordering all the concerns of the soul.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: Love is personified functionally; the passage does not present a full
myth of a love deity.
- id: motif:6
label: Madness replacing temperance
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The lord of the soul, with Madness as captain, expels shame and good opinions,
purges temperance, and brings in madness fully.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This is an internal moral transformation rather than an external possession
scene.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself reports an older or traditional expression in which Love
has been called a tyrant, supporting a cautious comparison between the internal
master passion and a broader motif of tyrannical Love.
claim_level: same_function
target: traditional saying or motif of Love as tyrant
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:13
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not identify a specific external text, cult, or mythic
tradition for the saying; it only states that Love has been so called 'of old.'
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 21842-21849
quote_or_summary: The tyrannical man is introduced as the remaining type, with questions
about his formation from the democratic man and his happiness or misery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 21850-21866
quote_or_summary: The speaker says unlawful unnecessary appetites exist in everyone,
but in some they are controlled by laws, reason, and better desires.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 21867-21876
quote_or_summary: "“when the reasoning and human and ruling power is asleep; then
the wild beast within us... goes forth to satisfy his desires”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 21879-21900
quote_or_summary: The temperate person awakens rational powers before sleep, moderates
appetites, pacifies passion, rouses reason, and thereby comes nearest to truth
and is least likely to suffer lawless visions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 21903-21907
quote_or_summary: "“in all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast
nature, which peers out in sleep”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 21910-21929
quote_or_summary: The democratic man is recalled as trained by a miserly parent,
then influenced by licentious people, and finally living in what he considers
moderate indulgence in various pleasures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 21930-21943
quote_or_summary: The democratic man’s son is imagined as brought up in his father’s
principles and then drawn into a lawless life termed perfect liberty by seducers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 21940-21948
quote_or_summary: "“they contrive to implant in him a master passion... a sort of
monstrous winged drone”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 21951-21958
quote_or_summary: Other lusts gather amid incense, perfumes, garlands, wines, and
dissolute pleasures, buzzing around and nourishing the sting of desire in the
drone-like nature.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 21958-21966
quote_or_summary: The lord of the soul, with Madness as captain of his guard, enters
frenzy, removes good opinions and shame, purges temperance, and brings in madness
fully.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: lines 21969-21974
quote_or_summary: "“of old love has been called a tyrant”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 21975-21986
quote_or_summary: The speaker associates tyrannical spirit with drunkenness, mental
derangement, belief in ruling men and gods, lust, and passion.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: quote
locator: lines 21987-21983
quote_or_summary: "“Love is the lord of the house within him, and orders all the
concerns of his soul.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is explicit about internal figures and images, but most motifs
are philosophical-psychological rather than mythic narrative motifs. Line locators
are approximate within the provided stable range.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. No external comparison was added beyond the passage’s own statement that Love has been called a tyrant of old.
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