Motif
Battle between gods and giants
battle_between_gods_and_giants
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat 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 Argonautica BOOK II / BOOK III / BOOK IV / ENDNOTES:; lines 5494-5587 confidence: high
Endnotes mention the Mossynes, explain a bridegroom-gift exemption with an Iliad comparison involving Agamemnon and Achilles, identify the fight between gods and giants, gloss the Shining One and a name of Ares, define the liquid in gods' veins, and give a variant reading about wrath with stranger-folk.
A note explicitly identifies an allusion as the fight between the gods and the giants.
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