Motif
burden of heavy heroic tasks
burden_of_heavy_heroic_tasks
A motif of the The Hero's Journey 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES; lines 4322-4408 confidence: medium
Heracles addresses Iolaus, recounting Amphitryon’s killing of Electryon, his reception by Creon and Eniocha, the unlike births of Heracles and Iolaus’s father, and the heavy tasks laid on Heracles by fate.
Heracles states that fate laid heavy tasks upon him and refers to Amphitryon’s burden after folly.
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