μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T89

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Filed under Tragic love.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Woman falls in love with dying warrior Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved
Filed beside it
Death from love Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress Lovers treacherously separated Woman mourns dead lover Lovers buried in same grave Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms

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