μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Tragic love.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Woman falls in love with dying warriorWoman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved
Filed beside it
Death from loveBath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empressHero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistressLovers treacherously separatedWoman mourns dead loverLovers buried in same graveLovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to deathWoman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms

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