Motif
breakdown of hospitality and kinship bonds
breakdown_of_hospitality_and_kinship_bonds
A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust 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 I-VII BOOK THE FIRST. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 947-1039 confidence: high
People live by rapine; host, guest, in-laws, siblings, spouses, stepmothers, and sons become threats; Piety is vanquished and Astræa is the last heavenly deity to abandon the blood-drenched Earth.
The Iron Age makes guest and host unsafe, turns in-laws, spouses, brothers, stepmothers, and sons against one another, and replaces good feeling with violence and greed.
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