Motif
avenger from the dead person's dust
avenger_from_the_dead_person_s_dust
A motif of the Death, Rebirth, and Transformation 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 THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2636-2708 confidence: high
Dido invokes the Sun, Juno, Hecate, avenging sisters, and gods of dying Elissa; she prays for Aeneas' war, exile, separation from Iülus, early unburied death, and commands Tyrian hatred of his seed, calling for an unnamed avenger and perpetual battle between descendants.
Dido invokes an unnamed avenger to arise from her dust and pursue the Dardanian settlement with firebrand and steel.
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