Motif
ancestral objects triggering curse
ancestral_objects_triggering_curse
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Taboos, Geasa, and Curse-Bound Boundaries. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE / THE WAR OF THE TITANS / THE STORY OF OEDIPUS / THE THEBAID; lines 7639-7678 confidence: medium
Polyneices, called heaven-born and golden-haired, sets a silver table once belonging to Cadmus before Oedipus and fills a golden cup with sweet wine; Oedipus perceives his father's treasures and is grieved.
Oedipus recognizes the silver table and golden cup as paternal or ancestral treasures and then curses his sons over the division of his father's goods.
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