The sources of Areopagiticus
Where Areopagiticus names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 5 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 5 named sources; 2 of those sources stand in the library.
4 authority 1 neutral
the sources most drawn on
2 of 2 sources-
Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The passage cites the speaker's own discursive record to clarify his political stance.
Furthermore, it is easy to judge of my purpose from the fact that in most of the discourses which I have written, you will find that I condemn oligarchies and special privileges, while I commend equal rights and democratic governments—not all of them, but those which are well-ordered, praising them not indiscriminately, but on just and reasonable grounds.
areopagiticus · Invokes the speaker's own earlier writings and speeches as evidence of consistent purpose. ¶ -
Letters of the King Great King 1 citation
The King's letters are treated as documentary proof of foreign attitudes.
As to the hatred of us among the Hellenes, you have heard the report of our generals themselves, and what the King thinks of us, he has made plain in the letters which have been dispatched by him.
areopagiticus · Uses royal correspondence as evidence of barbarian contempt. ¶
named once
3 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- areopagiticus 3 sources
- Ancestral democracy instituted by Solon · Ancestral democracy re-established by Cleisthenes · Report of the Athenian generals
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.
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