Motif
battle tide through an opened breach
battle_tide_through_an_opened_breach
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. 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 Iliad THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XII. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL.; lines 12294-12397 confidence: medium
Sarpedon pulls at the battlement; stones yield, ruins roll, a breach appears, and war rushes in like a deluge.
The passage describes a wall breach and uses deluge and tide imagery for the rush of war and Trojans through the opening.
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