Motif
socially sanctioned lover's abasement
socially_sanctioned_lover_s_abasement
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Beloved Imagery and Poetry. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Symposium Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1439-1491 confidence: high
The lover may pray, entreat, supplicate, swear, lie on a mat at the door, and endure a slavery worse than that of any slave.
The lover is allowed humiliating or servile acts in pursuit of love, including supplication and lying at the door, without ordinary loss of character.
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