Motif
bereaved mother petrified into a grieving rock
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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.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9818-9899 confidence: high
After her family's deaths, Niobe retires to Mount Sipylus in Lydia; Pausanias reports a distant rock resembling a grieving woman, and Ovid says she was carried to a Lydian mountain and changed into rock.
Niobe, after the death of husband and children, is linked to a rock resembling a woman overwhelmed with grief and to Ovid's account of her change into rock.
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