Motif
monster or dangerous being softened by love
monster_or_dangerous_being_softened_by_love
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. 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 BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9863-9933 confidence: medium
Polyphemus grooms himself and looks in water; Telemus, son of Eurymus, warns that Ulysses will take his single eye, but Polyphemus laughs, says another has taken it already, and later moves along the shore or returns to his shaded cave.
Polyphemus' love is associated with attention to grooming and the cessation of his carnage and thirst for blood.
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