Motif
coercive suitors consuming the absent household
coercive_suitors_consuming_the_absent_household
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 Odyssey HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I / BOOK II; lines 851-936 confidence: high
The suitors demand that Telemachus send Penelope away to marry; they cite Minerva-taught accomplishments and Penelope’s cleverness, compare her with women of old, and threaten to keep eating his estate until she chooses.
The suitors press for Penelope’s marriage and state that they will continue consuming Telemachus’s estate while Ulysses remains absent.
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