Motif
death by one's own hunting dogs
death_by_one_s_own_hunting_dogs
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. 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 THIRD. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4913-5002 confidence: high
The explanation says Pausanias tells a similar Actaeon story with Actaeon's curiosity after seeing Diana bathing, and mentions explanations that his dogs became mad and devoured him or that his hunting expenses led to a report that he was devoured by dogs.
The explanation reports that Actaeon's dogs devoured him in some interpretations and that Apollodorus preserved names of dogs who later died of grief.
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