μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters.

Ordaining the future. · Judgments and decrees. · Short-sighted judgments. · view the constellation · filed as M21

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 183 No. 124.
  • general Type 510
  • general BP II 47, III 305
  • general *Cox Nos. 208–226
  • general *Hartland FLJ IV 308
  • general *Oesterley No. 273
  • general Herbert III 201
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