Motif
mythic exemplum of drunken transgression and punishment
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Drinking, Social Disorder, and Religious Dispute. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Odyssey BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI; lines 9416-9503 confidence: high
The suitors are angered; Antinous rebukes Ulysses, tells of wine causing Centaur Eurytion's madness, wrongdoing, mutilation, and war with centaurs, and threatens to send Ulysses to deadly king Echetus.
Antinous uses the story of Centaur Eurytion's drunken misconduct, mutilation, and resulting conflict as a warning to Ulysses.
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