Motif
marriage race with death penalty
marriage_race_with_death_penalty
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family, within the sub-family Marriage Trials and Wedding Rites. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5537-5632 confidence: high
Atalanta agrees to marry only the man who can outrun her, defeated suitors being killed; Melanion wins by a stratagem similar to that attributed by Ovid to Hippomenes and becomes her husband.
Atalanta will marry only the man who outruns her, while defeated suitors are to be put to death.
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