Motif
breach of hospitality under divine sanction
breach_of_hospitality_under_divine_sanction
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest 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 Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 382-487 confidence: high
Chian merchants report Thestorides' profitable recital of the same poems; Homer sets out for Chios, boards a vessel to Erythr, invokes a favourable wind, and prays to expose Thestorides, whose breach of hospitality drew the wrath of Jove the Hospitable.
Thestorides' breach of hospitality is explicitly linked with the wrath of Jove the Hospitable.
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