Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

god disguised as a human rouses heroes

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A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Divine Possession and Inspiration. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • The Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 12542-12674 confidence: high

    A speaker says a god in human form descended, not Calchas, and that the figure's signs reveal a god.

    A god in human form is recognized and Neptune inspires routed warriors by divine force and speech.

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