Motif
improvised objects of feast and house turned into weapons
improvised_objects_of_feast_and_house_turned_into_weapons
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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1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH.; lines 7741-7823 confidence: high
Phorbas and Amphimedon slip in warm blood; Perseus kills them and uses a huge embossed bowl to strike Erithus before slaying several more named figures.
Perseus hurls a heavy decorated bowl, and Lycormas tears a bar from a doorpost to kill Pettalus; Pelates also dies while trying to remove a doorpost bar.
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