The sources of Characters
Where Characters names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 2 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 2 named sources; 1 of those sources stand in the library.
1 authority 1 neutral
the sources most drawn on
1 of 1 source-
Iliad Homer 1 citation
The passage explicitly attributes a quoted political maxim to Homer's lines, used by the oligarchic man as authoritative support for his views.
" Of the lines of Homer he holds fast to this one only, that "the rule of many is not good;
characters · the oligarchic man selectively invokes this Homeric line as political authority for one-man rule ¶
named once
1 sourceEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- characters 1 source
- unspecified prior custom of philosophical proems
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
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- 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.
Every count on this page is a link to the passages behind it. A name without a link is recorded but not yet paged. How the harvest reads.