Motif
Divine visitor tested by impious host
divine_visitor_tested_by_impious_host
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
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1224-1310 confidence: high
The fable summary says Lycaon, king of Arcadia, tests whether his guest is Jupiter by serving the body of a hostage at a feast, and the god punishes him by changing him into a wolf.
Lycaon attempts to determine whether his guest is a god by plotting his murder and by serving human flesh at a feast.
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