Comparative mythology corpus

Political Degeneration Expressed Through Animal And Monster Imagery

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Greek The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4871-4959 high The passage lists portraits of political character types: timocratical, oligarchical, democratic, and tyrannical; it includes the democratic man as a State with citadel and embassies, wild-beast nature, the tyrant as parricide and obscene dream, and drones becoming a winged monster drone. record