Motif
Commissioned dream apparition
commissioned_dream_apparition
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception 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 VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6842-6918 confidence: high
Iris addresses Sleep as repose and peace of mind, asks him to send a vision resembling the shipwrecked king to Halcyone in Herculean Trachyn, states that Juno commands this, and departs along her bow when the vapour brings sleep upon her.
Juno commands through Iris that Sleep send a vision in the shipwrecked king's form to Halcyone, and Sleep selects Morpheus to carry it out.
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