Motif
Danger of union with a deathless goddess
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES / V. TO APHRODITE; lines 6801-6888 confidence: high
Anchises wakes, sees Aphrodite's divine features, becomes afraid, turns aside, covers his face, and begs not to be left palsied, saying that a man who lies with a deathless goddess is not hale afterward.
Anchises fears being left palsied because a man who lies with a deathless goddess is not hale afterward.
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