Motif
ritual petition to a goddess for military relief
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A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Divine Aid in Battle. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 6791-6915 confidence: medium
Book argument: Helenus orders Hector to arrange a procession of the queen and Trojan matrons to Minerva's temple; Glaucus and Diomed recognize ancestral hospitality and exchange arms; Hector later leaves Andromache and returns to battle.
The argument says Helenus commands Hector to send the queen and Trojan matrons in procession to Minerva's temple to ask her to remove Diomed from battle.
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