Motif
abandoned survivor among monsters
abandoned_survivor_among_monsters
A motif of the The Hero's Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1997-2067 confidence: high
The speaker identifies himself as Achemenides from Ithaca, formerly in Ulysses' company, and says his comrades abandoned him in the Cyclops' vast cave.
Achemenides says his comrades abandoned him at the Cyclops' cave and that he survived for three lunar cycles near the Cyclopes by foraging.
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