batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l6668-l6744
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l6668-l6744
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6668-6744
start: '6668'
end: '6744'
translation: The Republic
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: Education, to use the expression of Plato, moves like a wheel with an ever-multiplying
rapidity.
summary: The passage reflects on accelerated civilizational progress through criticism,
education, science, and global exchange, then analyzes Plato's proposals about
shared education and civic roles for men and women, contrasting Greek ideals of
womanhood with actual Athenian social limits and with Plato's different ideal.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage says criticism has pierced tradition and that the present is no
longer overpowered by the past.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Education is described with the image of a wheel moving with ever-multiplying
rapidity.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage speculates that science, health knowledge, machinery, locomotion,
peace, leisure, and contact between East and West may increase human capacities.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says community of property seemed less difficult to Plato and
Aristotle than community of wives and children.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage says Plato prefaced the community of wives and children with a
proposal that men and women should have the same occupations, training, and education.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The passage presents Plato as answering objections by saying men and women
differ organically only in begetting and bearing children, while natural gifts
are distributed among both sexes.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says Plato wished to raise woman to a higher level of existence
for the sake of both men and women.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage names Athene, Artemis, Antigone, and Andromache as Greek noble
conceptions of womanhood but says these ideals lacked counterparts in actual life.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The Athenian woman is described as not equal to her husband, not involved
in military or political matters, and not becoming famous in literature in later
Greece.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Plato's ideal woman is described as companion of the man, sharing war, government,
and bodily and mental training.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Plato
description: Philosopher whose views on education, community, and the status of
women are summarized by the passage.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Aristotle
description: Mentioned with Plato in relation to the doctrine of community of property.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: men and women
description: Human sexes discussed in relation to same occupations, training, education,
and natural gifts.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Athene
description: Greek goddess named as one of the noble conceptions of womanhood.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Artemis
description: Greek goddess named as one of the noble conceptions of womanhood.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Antigone
description: Heroine named as one of the noble conceptions of womanhood.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Andromache
description: Heroine named as one of the noble conceptions of womanhood.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Athenian woman
description: Actual social figure described as unequal to her husband, domestic,
maternal, and excluded from military, political, and literary fame.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Plato's ideal woman
description: Woman in Plato's proposed ideal, described as man's companion and sharer
in war, government, and bodily and mental training.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: philosophical reformer of custom
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says Plato emancipated himself from the ideas of his country
and brought philosophy to bear on a question usually governed by custom or feeling.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: shared participants in education and occupation
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage reports the proposal that men and women should have the same
occupations, training, and education.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: ideal exemplars of womanhood
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: The passage names these goddesses and heroines as noble Greek conceptions
of womanhood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: restricted domestic social role
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The passage describes the Athenian woman as housekeeper and mother, not equal
to her husband and absent from military, political, and literary prominence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: civic and military companion
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The passage says Plato's ideal woman is companion of the man and shares war,
government, and bodily and mental training.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: veil of tradition
literal_form: veil
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: wheel of education
literal_form: wheel
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: East and West
literal_form: geographical poles meeting together
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Speculation on accelerated civilization
summary: The passage imagines civilization advancing rapidly through criticism,
universal education, science, health, machinery, locomotion, peace, leisure, and
exchange among nations.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Argument for common training of men and women
summary: The passage summarizes Plato's proposal that men and women share occupations,
training, and education, and reports his answer that sex difference is limited
to begetting and bearing children while natural gifts occur in both sexes.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Greek ideals and Athenian social reality contrasted with Plato's ideal
summary: The passage contrasts noble Greek female exemplars with actual Athenian
women's restricted status, then states Plato's different ideal of woman as companion
sharing war, government, and training.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: liberation from ignorance through criticism and education
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage describes custom and ignorance as a former tyranny, tradition
as a veil pierced by criticism, and education as a rapidly multiplying force.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an analytical-philosophical passage, not a mythic narrative; the
motif label is based on imagery and thematic pattern rather than story action.
- id: motif:2
label: meeting of East and West in a common human stock
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage says East and West may meet and all nations may contribute thoughts
and experience to the common stock of humanity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: low
cautions: The passage presents speculative cultural exchange, not a developed mythic
episode.
- id: motif:3
label: gender duality reworked as shared civic training
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage frames men and women as a paired contrast and summarizes Plato's
argument that both should share occupations, training, education, and civic roles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The pattern is social and philosophical rather than explicitly mythological.
- id: motif:4
label: divine and heroic feminine exemplars contrasted with human social order
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage names goddesses and heroines as noble conceptions of womanhood,
but says such ideals had no counterpart in actual Athenian life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage names mythic and literary exemplars but does not narrate their
stories.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage compares Greek divine and heroic images of womanhood with actual
Athenian women's restricted status and with Plato's proposed ideal of woman as
civic companion.
claim_level: same_function
target: Greek feminine exemplars and Plato's ideal womanhood
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is made within Jowett's analysis; it does not establish
a shared narrative motif or historical transmission.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 6668-6681
quote_or_summary: The passage says custom and ignorance no longer hold the world
fast, criticism has pierced tradition, progress may accelerate, and education
moves like a wheel with ever-multiplying rapidity.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary with short excerpt context.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 6682-6695
quote_or_summary: The passage speculates that natural science, fertility, machinery,
physiology, health, peace, leisure, locomotion, crises of mind, and the meeting
of East and West may contribute to humanity's common stock.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 6697-6705
quote_or_summary: The passage says community of property was less difficult for
Plato and Aristotle than community of wives and children, and that Plato proposed
same occupations, training, and education for men and women.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 6706-6718
quote_or_summary: The passage reports objections about different natures and division
of labour, then says Plato answered that men and women differ organically only
in begetting and bearing children, and that natural gifts are scattered among
both sexes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 6720-6727
quote_or_summary: The passage says Plato showed independence from his country and
the East, recognized women as half the human race, wanted to raise woman higher,
and treated the issue philosophically rather than by custom or feeling.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 6727-6732
quote_or_summary: The passage says Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in
Athene, Artemis, Antigone, and Andromache, but these ideals had no counterpart
in actual life.
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 6732-6739
quote_or_summary: The passage describes the Athenian woman as not equal to her husband,
not hostess or mistress of house, but housekeeper and mother, with no role in
military or political matters and no later literary fame.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 6740-6744
quote_or_summary: The passage says Plato's ideal woman is companion of the man,
sharing the toils of war, cares of government, and bodily and mental exercises,
while losing as far as possible the incidents of maternity and female sex characteristics.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based directly on the supplied passage. Motif confidence is
limited because the passage is expository philosophical analysis rather than a
mythic narrative.
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'
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No external sources or unsupported taxonomy identifiers were used.
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