Motif
Aged parent initially refuses rescue from a destroyed homeland
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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.
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roman
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Aeneidos LIBER I / PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS / AENEIDOS / LIBER II; lines 1512-1634 confidence: high
At the ancestral house, Anchises refuses to be carried to the mountains, refuses exile after Troy's destruction, tells the young to flee, and speaks of finding death and of having been touched by Jupiter's thunderbolt and fire.
Anchises refuses to leave fallen Troy or endure exile, while Aeneas and the household plead until omens change his decision.
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