Motif
Alternative underworld fate after violent defeat
alternative_underworld_fate_after_violent_defeat
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7964-8061 confidence: low
Some say the body was hurled to Tartarus; Mopsus sees a tawny-winged bird emerge from the pile and says, “Hail! thou glory of the Lapithæan race, once the greatest of men, but now the only bird {of thy kind}, Cæneus.”
One reported version says Cæneus’ body was hurled to roomy Tartarus by the weight of the wood.
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