Motif
Flight from incestuous crime followed by city foundation
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A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Founders, Migrations, and Conquest. 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. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3485-3574 confidence: medium
The narrator describes Byblis’s wavering mind and repeated exposure to repulse; eventually the brother flees his country and the crime and founds a new city abroad.
The brother flees from his country and the crime, then founds a new city in a foreign land.
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