Motif
Bereavement followed by self-casting into the sea
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition 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 VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7293-7322 confidence: high
Ovid and Apollodorus agree that Æsacus was Priam's son and changed into a didapper/diver; Apollodorus instead makes him son of Priam and Arisbe, married to Sterope, whose young death leads him to throw himself into the sea.
In the summarized Apollodorus account, Sterope dies young, Æsacus is afflicted by her death, and he throws himself into the sea.
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