Motif
Heroic anger as civic danger
heroic_anger_as_civic_danger
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Rage in Conflict and Battle. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE FARMER, HIS BOY, AND THE ROOKS / THE ASS AND THE DOG / THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE / THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN; lines 4178-4195 confidence: medium
The Theban says he hopes that when the heroes are angry, Athens may suffer Hercules’ anger and Thebes only Theseus’.
The Theban imagines the heroes becoming angry and assigns the more dangerous anger of Hercules to Athens and the lesser anger of Theseus to Thebes.
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