Motif
funeral games honoring the dead
funeral_games_honoring_the_dead
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 20969-21070 confidence: high
Achilles and the Myrmidons honor Patroclus; his ghost demands burial; wood, procession, hair offerings, animal and captive sacrifices, pyre, libations to Winds, bone collection in a gold urn, tomb, and funeral games are listed.
The argument states that Achilles institutes athletic and martial contests after Patroclus' funeral.
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The Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 21344-21448 confidence: high
The chief gathers the populace on the plain; a train of oxen, mules, steeds, vases, tripods, brass, and women is brought from the ships for the funeral games.
The prizes are explicitly for funeral games, and the contest is framed by mourning for Patroclus.
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