Narrations

Narrations can be analysed in terms of the way they structure their sequence of events.

Narrations can be analysed in terms of point of view.

The more a state aims at creating a culture of distraction from the lack of justification for its own existence, the more it supports creation of and access to narrations that are lavishly presented on a spectacular scale and tend toward fairy-tale fictions.

All preceding narrations are so intermixed with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them in a great measure, to the embellishment of the poet and orator.