Motif
Divine attack on city foundations
divine_attack_on_city_foundations
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Rejected Warner and Communal Destruction. 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 REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24896-25075 confidence: medium
A Dryden passage depicts Neptune below a wall foundation driving his mace and heaving the building from its base.
Neptune is described as working beneath wall foundations with a mace and heaving the building from its base.
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