Motif
Life bound to an external object burned in fire
life_bound_to_an_external_object_burned_in_fire
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Fatal Attacks on External Life-Tokens and Life-Sites. 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 OF THE / PRINCIPAL TRANSFORMATIONS MENTIONED IN / THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK VIII.; lines 234-271 confidence: high
Theseus is invited to the Calydonian boar hunt; Atalanta first wounds the boar; Meleager kills it; Althaea, Meleager's mother, accelerates his death by putting the fatal billet in the fire.
Meleager's death is accelerated when his mother Althaea places the fatal billet in the fire.
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