Early death with fame preferred — Mythoi

Motif

Early death with fame preferred.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J216.5

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Choice of deaths.

Filed beside it

Army faces enemy rather than the anger of their king who would kill them if they returned in flight Lamb prefers to be sacrificed in temple rather than to be eaten by a wolf Crab would rather be killed outright than imprisoned and starved Soldier asks to be stabbed in chest. Prostrate soldier asks enemy to stab him in chest instead of back in order to save his honor. Captor frees him and the two become friends Saint chooses to die "after pride of youth" and before "misery of old age."

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