Motif
Care, contest, and recovery of bodies
care_contest_and_recovery_of_bodies
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 The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE.; lines 117-192 confidence: high
Captions include Neptune rising from the sea; Greek earrings; Sleep escaping Jupiter's wrath; Greek shield; Bacchus; Ajax defending the Greek ships; Castor and Pollux; buckles; Diana; and Sleep and Death conveying Sarpedon's body to Lycia.
The list includes Sleep and Death conveying Sarpedon's body, a fight for Patroclus' body, Patroclus' funeral pile, Hector's body at Achilles' car, Priam obtaining Hector's body, and Hector's funeral.
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