Motif
failed embrace of the dead beloved relative
failed_embrace_of_the_dead_beloved_relative
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family, within the sub-family Ghostly Encounters, Failed Embraces, and Animal Sight. 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 Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4025-4104 confidence: high
Aeneas says his father's melancholy phantom often appeared and drove him to steer to these portals; he says his fleet is anchored and asks Anchises to give his hand and not withdraw from an embrace.
Aeneas tries three times to embrace Anchises, but the phantom escapes his hands like wind or sleep.
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