Motif
peaceful death foretold after old age and completed rites
peaceful_death_foretold_after_old_age_and_completed_rites
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Death and Doom Omens. 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 XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10213-10296 confidence: medium
The prophecy instructs Ulysses to fix the oar in the ground, sacrifice a ram, bull, and boar to Neptune, return home, offer hecatombs to all the gods, and later die gently from the sea in old age while blessed by his people.
Teiresias foretells that Ulysses’s death will come from the sea, gently, when he is old and his people bless him.
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