Motif
Beauty drawing suitors into mortal danger
beauty_drawing_suitors_into_mortal_danger
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5309-5389 confidence: high
Atalanta repulses suitors by requiring them to race her: wife and wedding are the reward for the swift, and death is the recompense of the slow; many suitors accept because of her beauty.
The passage explicitly says the power of Atalanta’s beauty causes many rash suitors to accept the terms, and Hippomenes also changes his judgment after seeing her.
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