Motif
wild mountain people against town-builders
wild_mountain_people_against_town_builders
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8159-8258 confidence: medium
Buttman and Keightley are cited on Centaurs and Lapithæ as opposed poetic names for rude horse-riding tribes and more civilized town-builders, with discussion of the name Centaur and Hippodamia's possible Centauress identity.
The passage presents Centaurs and Lapithæ as opposed races, one rude and horse-riding, the other town-founding and more civilized, with the Centaurs driven back toward mountains.
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