Motif
Hero sent against a deadly adversary to bring about his death
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. 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 Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24168-24311 confidence: medium
The Amazons are described as warlike women living apart from men, renewing their numbers through temporary intercourse, burning the right breast for archery, recurring in ancient poems, and appearing in traditions involving Priam and Bellerophon.
Bellerophon is dispatched against the Amazons by those who wish to procure his death.
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