Motif
Proxy wooing for marriage
proxy_wooing_for_marriage
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9516-9643 confidence: high
Wooing was by proxy; Agamemnon wooed Helen for Menelaus, and Idomeneus is noted as coming in person rather than sending a deputy.
The note explicitly describes wooing by proxy and gives Agamemnon’s wooing of Helen for Menelaus as an example.
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