Motif
Divinely prepared heroic monster trial
divinely_prepared_heroic_monster_trial
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. 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 Argonautica The Argonautica / INTRODUCTION / THE ARGONAUTICA / BOOK I; lines 1190-1274 confidence: high
Earthborn men descend from the mountain, block Chytus with crags, fight Heracles and the heroes, and are described as monsters nurtured by Hera as a trial for Heracles.
The passage states that Hera nurtured the dread Earthborn monsters to be a trial for Heracles, who then fights them with his bow.
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