Motif
Fraudulent stepmother and corrupted oracle create a sacrificial crisis
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A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family. 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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Fasti LIBER I. / LIBER II. / NOTES: / LIBER III.; lines 5432-5509 confidence: high
Scorched seeds, through a wicked stepmother’s fraud, produce no crops; a person sent to Delphi is corrupted and reports that the deaths of Helle and young Phrixus are demanded by the lot.
The stepmother’s fraud with the seeds and the corrupted Delphic report lead to the demand for the deaths of Helle and Phrixus.
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