Motif
fall of the city with royal blood, captive women, and child-killing
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. 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 Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8860-8963 confidence: high
Ilion is in flames; Jove’s altar has Priam’s blood; a priestess of Apollo is dragged by the hair; Greeks drag away Dardanian matrons clinging to divine statues and burning temples; Astyanax is hurled from the towers.
The passage combines burning Ilion, Priam’s blood, captive women dragged from temples, and Astyanax hurled from the towers.
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