Motif
false promise of imminent victory preceding suffering
false_promise_of_imminent_victory_preceding_suffering
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Prophetic Revelations and Presentiments. 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 Iliad THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 2972-3112 confidence: high
The Dream rebukes Agamemnon for sleeping, says it bears Jove's command, tells him to array the Greeks, and repeats that Troy can now be destroyed.
The Dream promises Agamemnon he can now destroy Troy, while the narrator says he is blind to Jove's and fate's design and to the grief and deaths still remaining.
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