Motif
Hero abandoned because of polluted or unbearable wound
hero_abandoned_because_of_polluted_or_unbearable_wound
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9417-9512 confidence: high
At Tenedos, Philoctetes, holder of Heracles' bow and arrows, is bitten by a venomous snake; his wound's odour leads to his abandonment on Lesbos.
Philoctetes' snake wound emits an unbearable odour, leading to his abandonment on Lesbos.
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