Rescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goods — Mythoi

Motif

Rescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goods.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J222

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 472), 142 (ST 486).

Within the index

Filed under Choice between evils.

Filed beside it

Four choices, all of which are evil; man to make one choice only Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth Choice: plainness with safety or grandeur with danger Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen Choice: suffering in youth or old age Present evil preferred to change for worse Choice of deaths Captivity preferred to death Enemies make peace rather than slay each other Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state Choice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and life Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong Difficult choice between relatives Death preferred to other evils Choice between evils – miscellaneous

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “shipwreck” · wander