Motif
Boast before combat followed by decisive defeat
boast_before_combat_followed_by_decisive_defeat
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Boasts in Combat and Defeat. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 21729-21864 confidence: high
Epeus chooses the combat, seizes the beast, challenges someone to take the bowl, claims the mule as his certain right, and warns that his hand will crush his opponent's frame and bones.
Epeus boasts that no one can deny his claim to victory and threatens bodily destruction; he then knocks Euryalus down with a single heavy blow.
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