Motif
Immortality without preserved youth
immortality_without_preserved_youth
A motif of the Immortality Without Renewal family, within the sub-family Immortality Without Preserved Youth. 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES / V. TO APHRODITE; lines 6890-6966 confidence: high
Eos rapt away Tithonus and gained deathlessness for him from Zeus but not youth; he ages, is separated from her bed, is nourished and clothed, and is finally placed behind shining doors where he babbles without strength.
Eos secures deathlessness and eternal life for Tithonus but forgets to ask for youth, leaving him subject to old age.
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