Motif
divine messenger announces command
divine_messenger_announces_command
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Messengers and Prophets. 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 Odyssey BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2289-2384 confidence: high
Jove orders Mercury to tell Calypso that Ulysses is decreed to return: he will travel by raft for twenty perilous days to Scheria, and the Phaeacians will send him home with gifts.
Jove sends Mercury across land and sea to Calypso to communicate the gods’ decree about Ulysses.
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