Motif
Bathing, anointing, and clothing after release or hardship
bathing_anointing_and_clothing_after_release_or_hardship
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Odyssey THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3599-3696 confidence: medium
Bonds are loosed; Mars goes to Thrace, Venus to Cyprus and Paphos; the Graces bathe, anoint, and clothe Venus at her grove and altar.
Venus is bathed, anointed, and clothed after release from bonds in the bard's song; later Ulysses, after hardship and lack of attendants, is washed, anointed, and clothed before rejoining the feast.
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