Motif
Foreign or extraordinary ally arrives to aid a doomed city and dies
foreign_or_extraordinary_ally_arrives_to_aid_a_doomed_city_and_dies
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 816-912 confidence: medium
The Aethiopis is summarized as including Penthesilea's aid to the Trojans and death, Memnon's arrival and fall, Achilles' death by Paris' arrow, and the dispute of Odysseus and Aias over Achilles' arms.
Penthesilea and Memnon are summarized as arriving to help the Trojans after Hector's fall and then dying or falling.
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