Motif
battlefield slaughter and despoiling of the dead
battlefield_slaughter_and_despoiling_of_the_dead
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 13163-13283 confidence: high
Fresh slaughter covers the ground; Aphareus is pierced through the throat by the warrior printed as “great neas,” and his shield lies over him as death seals his eyes.
The passage repeatedly narrates warriors being killed in close combat, followed by stripping spoils or arms from the fallen.
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