Motif
Personified horrors of war
personified_horrors_of_war
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Cosmic and Supernatural 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 25189-25329 confidence: high
A war tableau includes slaughtered heroes and horses, Bellona, Rout, Terror, Discord, Furies breathing flames, Fates, Death, Battles, and Gorgons with snake hair.
War is rendered through Bellona, Rout, Terror, Discord, Furies, Fates, Death, Battles, and Gorgons.
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