Motif
banquet disorder around a vulnerable stranger
banquet_disorder_around_a_vulnerable_stranger
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Odyssey BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII; lines 8279-8350 confidence: high
Eurymachus calls Ulysses a stranger, offers him servant work in fields, fences, and trees, and accuses him of begging to fill his belly.
At a banquet, a stranger/beggar is mocked, threatened, and nearly struck; other speakers complain of disorder or counsel against violence to the stranger and servants.
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