Motif
sole survivor of ship destruction
sole_survivor_of_ship_destruction
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Shipwreck Survivors and Flood Landfall. 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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The Odyssey BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10298-10348 confidence: high
His men eat the cattle of the sun-god; Jove strikes the ship with thunderbolts, all the men perish, and Ulysses alone survives.
Jove's thunderbolts destroy the ship and all the men perish together, with Ulysses alone left alive.
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