Motif
disobedience after victory brings losses
disobedience_after_victory_brings_losses
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. 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 BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 3801-3898 confidence: high
After sailing from Troy to Ismarus, Ulysses' force sacks the city of the Cicons, takes wives and booty, but the men ignore his advice to leave and remain drinking wine and slaughtering livestock on the shore.
Ulysses urges immediate departure after the sack of Ismarus, but his men remain; reinforced Cicons then attack and kill men from every ship.
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