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Quest

Myth & story

A directed journey for a named prize or answer. Romance quests and ordinary errands share vocabulary, not one mythic engine.

Roman religion

  • Quest appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats Aeneas’s fated search for the Hesperian homeland through omen, prophecy, and delayed landing. Quest as published concept for that voyage-task, not a generic adventure slogan.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.