Motif
athletic contest with ranked prizes
athletic_contest_with_ranked_prizes
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 2988-3044 confidence: high
Aeneas leads the crowd to a grassy plain enclosed by wooded hills and a valley amphitheatre; Trojans and Sicilians gather, with named runners including Nisus, Euryalus, Diores, Salius, Helymus, and others.
A public foot-race is organized with announced gifts for all participants and special prizes for the first three finishers.
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