Motif
choice of stranger over parents
choice_of_stranger_over_parents
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Argonautica THE ARGONAUTICA / BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III; lines 3233-3328 confidence: high
Medea sleeps, is troubled by fearful dreams, and dreams that the stranger seeks not the fleece but to take her as wife; she performs the oxen task, her parents reject their promise, and she chooses the stranger, waking in fear.
In the dream, the decision is laid upon Medea, and she neglects her parents and chooses the stranger.
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