Motif
heroic bearer of household gods into a new land
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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 13704-13736 confidence: medium
Footnote 93 explains the companions of Aeneas as probably the Penates brought into Latium; Dionysius of Halicarnassus says he saw them in a Roman temple as two seated youths holding spears.
Aeneas is said to have brought the Penates into Latium, and the Penates are identified as his companions.
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