Motif
Erotic pain as divine shafts and inner fire
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A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Beloved and Erotic Love as Wound, Joy, and Grief. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Argonautica THE ARGONAUTICA / BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III; lines 3330-3424 confidence: medium
Night covers earth and city; Medea is sleepless from love for Aeson’s son, fear of the bulls, tears, a quivering heart, smouldering anguish, and the Loves’ shafts.
Medea’s anguish is described as a smouldering fire, and the Loves are said to direct shafts of agony against the heart.
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