Motif
marriage rite crisis at the threshold of the ceremony
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. 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 3752-3838 confidence: high
Iphis compares herself to the daughter of the Sun who loved a bull, mentions Daedalus and his waxen wings, asks whether he could make her a youth or transform Ianthe, and says nature alone prevents the desired marriage; she invokes Juno and Hymenaeus.
The wedding has been delayed repeatedly, only one day remains, and the marriage deities are invoked amid uncertainty.
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