Motif
battlefield contest over a fallen warrior's corpse and arms
battlefield_contest_over_a_fallen_warrior_s_corpse_and_arms
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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greek
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The Iliad THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 16202-16341 confidence: high
Patroclus rushes to strip the corpse; Hector leaps down, defends the body, and the two warriors contend over it, with Patroclus dragging by the foot and Hector holding the head.
Patroclus seeks to strip Cebrion's corpse, Hector defends it, and the armies fight around the body before the Greeks draw off the corpse and arms.
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