μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q501.2

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“Aeneas, son of Anchises, and with him Archelochus and Acamas, sons of Antenor, and Theanus, leaders of ‘the Dardanians; of the Thracians, Acamas, son of Eusorus ; of the Cicones, Euphemus, son of Troezenus ; of the Paeonians, Pyraechmes; of the Paphlagonians, Pylaemenes, son of Bilsates; from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon ; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus ; from Larissa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

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Filed under Unremitting torture as punishment.

2 finer motifs beneath it
When hungry man tries to gather fruit it flies out of his reachPunishment: delicious food always fills with maggots just as man is about to eat it
Filed beside it
Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls downPunishment of Loki. A serpent above him continually drops venom in his facePunishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.)Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continuallyPunishment of Io. Transformed to cow with gadfly ceaselessly pursuingUnremittent thirst as punishmentCeaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.)Spirit in hell must bathe people endlessly. (Cf. Q578.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases windsTransformation: man to swineTransformation: woman to bitchTransformation: man to doveTransformation: man (woman) to almond treeTransformation by drinkingDisenchantment from tree form by embrace of loverMoly: magic plantMagic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.)Magic drinkMagic chairLotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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