Motif
exposure of dangerous infant
exposure_of_dangerous_infant
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family, within the sub-family Exposure, Abandonment, and Rescue. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7293-7322 confidence: high
Priam repudiates Arisbe to marry Hecuba; Æsacus sees Hecuba pregnant and predicts that her progeny will cause a bloody war ending in Troy's destruction; the infant is exposed on Mount Ida when born.
After the prediction, the infant is exposed on Mount Ida.
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