Children

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Motif hierarchy
Connected textual entities
Entity Type
Motif
Inset Story Entity Type Motif
Caepulla Inset Story Father/son relationships
Death of son
Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit
Deceitful woman
Illness
Medicine
Murder
Suicide
Grief
Children
Death
Canis Inset Story Father/son relationships
Animal tale
Violent punishment
Familial relationships
Evidence
False evidence of unchastity/criminality
Dog
Lesson: haste
Lesson: loyalty
Serpent
Children
Violence
Remorse
Cygni Inset Story Father/daughter relationships
Deception
Animal tale
Violent punishment
Gullible husband
Deceitful old woman
Childbirth
Pregnancy
Magical beings (spirits, demons, djinn, witches)
Magic
Food and drink
Bird
Woman tricked/coerced into sex
Identity object
Slander: wife falsely accused
Bathing
Bodily transformation
Wicked stepmother/mother-in-law
Rape
Swan
Necklace
Mother/son relationships
Marriage
Mistaken or concealed identity
Children
Judgement
Coerced Marriage
Coerced sex
Woman locked up/kept indoors
Magic object
Filius Inset Story Father/son relationships
Murder
Adultery
Gullible husband
Orientalised setting
Deceitful son
Patricide
Marriage
Death of husband
Children
Wise child
Judgement
Noverca Inset Story Father/son relationships
Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit
Deception
Deceitful woman
Violent punishment
Familial relationships
Murder
Gullible husband
Riches
Theft
Punishment for theft
Unjust execution
Revenge
Evidence
False evidence of unchastity/criminality
Wicked stepmother/mother-in-law
Marriage
Children
Nutrix Inset Story Deception
Familial relationships
Deceitful old man
Murder
Deceitful old woman
Riches
Childbirth
Pregnancy
(Threat of) bodily mutilation
Familial duty
Mistaken or concealed identity
Children
Old woman
Judgement
Court of law
Puer 3 annorum Inset Story Adultery
Food and drink
Children
Wise child
Puer 5 annorum Inset Story Deception
Riches
Theft
Punishment for theft
Food and drink
Bathing
Children
Wise child
Old woman
Judgement
Court of law
Puer Adoptatus Inset Story Father/son relationships
Deception
Familial relationships
Deceitful son
Debt
Lesson: greed
Age versus youth
Children
Foolish old man
Adoption
Death
Pride