Motif
boastful challenger immediately destroyed
boastful_challenger_immediately_destroyed
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Boasts in Combat and Defeat. 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 BOOK THE EIGHTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1067-1126 confidence: high
The Arcadian boasts that men’s weapons surpass women’s and that he will destroy the beast despite Diana; the beast gores Ancaeus with its tusks, and his blood and entrails fall to the earth.
Ancaeus boasts that his hand will destroy the beast, even against Diana’s protection, and is then killed by the beast’s tusks.
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