μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Elopement.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R225

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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
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Greek*Frazer Apollodorus II 174 n. 1 (Helen) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 860.
  • general *Type 516
  • general Rösch FFC LXXVII 106
  • general *Thien Motive 27
  • general *Boje 110ff.
  • general *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXVIII (1930) 489–543. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Flights.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Elopement on winged horseLovers elope to prevent girl's marriage to undesired fiancé
Filed beside it
Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three timesUnknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokensGirl flees to escape incestuous brotherWife flees from husband. (Cf. P210, T200.)Children leave home because their parents refuse them foodObstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapesFugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flightFugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer fallsPursuers aided by magic weather phenomenonFlight on skis; two on one pairFlight carrying friend (girl) on backFugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.)Ships burned to prevent flightWhale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.)Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the craneFlight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down
Travels with
Forest as refuge of eloping lovers. (Cf. R225.)Cave as eloping lovers' refuge. (Cf. R225, T35.)Eloping girl recaptured by parents. (Cf. R225.)
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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