Motif
Rejected forbidden passion turns toward revenge
rejected_forbidden_passion_turns_toward_revenge
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Rejection and Revenge. 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 FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13102-13196 confidence: high
Theseus leaves Ariadne, hopes to marry Phaedra; Phaedra comes to Athens, loves Hippolytus, and builds a temple to Venus near Troezen to see him more often.
Phaedra loves Hippolytus, discloses her passion, is refused, becomes desperate, and is prompted by her nurse to revenge herself on the chaste youth.
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