Motif
aetiology of named rock from human victim
aetiology_of_named_rock_from_human_victim
A motif of the Cosmic Origin and Creation 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 Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2575-2662 confidence: medium
Hercules is said to suffer a languishing illness and probably in madness to throw Lychas into the sea, explaining a rock known by that name.
The passage explains the rock known as Lychas by saying poets used Hercules’ casting of Lychas into the sea to account for its existence.
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