μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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  • GreekEuripides' Alcestis. *Grote I 108.
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Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizingHusband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to deathWife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe returnFemale deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go
Filed beside it
Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.)Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separatedSpouse's corpse kept after deathMan becomes a hermit after his wife's deathWidowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husbandGirl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his bodyWife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she lovesExcessive grief at husband's or wife's death
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