Motif
ambiguous oracle and death at the avoided sacred site
ambiguous_oracle_and_death_at_the_avoided_sacred_site
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 452-529 confidence: high
“Hesiod went to Delphi and there was warned that the issue of death should overtake him in the fair grove of Nemean Zeus.”
Hesiod is warned that death will overtake him in the grove of Nemean Zeus; he avoids one Nemea, but Oenoe is also sacred to Nemean Zeus and becomes the place of his murder.
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