Motif
city sacked for a woman
city_sacked_for_a_woman
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE TELEGONY / HOMERICA / THE EXPEDITION OF AMPHIARAUS / THE TAKING OF OECHALIA; lines 8251-8291 confidence: medium
Eustathius reports an account of Eurytus and Iole, for whose sake Heracles sacked Oechalia, and records competing claims about Homer and Creophylus in relation to the Taking of Oechalia.
Heracles sacks Oechalia for the sake of Eurytus' daughter Iole.
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