μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q551.3.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

“Hesiod also called him Schoeneus (see Apollodorus, below), and the later writers just mentioned ncbably accepted the name on his authority. According to Euripides, as we learn from Apollodorus (see below), the name of the heroine’s father was Maenalus. The suckling of Atalanta by the bear, and the unsuccessful assault on her by the two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhoecus, are described, with a wealth of picturesque detail, by Aelian (Var.”

The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IX · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.)

Filed beside it
Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.)Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.)Transformation to stone as punishmentPunishment: transformation into other object
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned childLions do not mate with their fellows, but prefer leopards. (Cf. Q551.3.)Golden apple
Carried in tale types

wander