Motif
Banquet transformed into battlefield
banquet_transformed_into_battlefield
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. 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. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7734-7787 confidence: high
An unnamed attacker strikes a protector; the son of Ægeus hurls a huge ancient figured bowl at him, and he falls vomiting blood, brains, and wine.
The passage explicitly states that objects formerly suited to a banquet are now used for war and slaughter, and lists cups, casks, cauldrons, a bowl, and a table part as weapons.
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