Motif
Doomed king amid burning city
doomed_king_amid_burning_city
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall 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 Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1239-1316 confidence: high
Pyrrhus drags Priam to the altar through Polites' blood, seizes his hair, and stabs him; Priam dies with burning Troy before him, and his headless body lies nameless on the shore.
Priam, formerly lord over many peoples and lands, is killed while burning Troy and her sunken towers are before his eyes.
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