Motif
river deity opposes excessive slaughter
river_deity_opposes_excessive_slaughter
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. 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 Iliad ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES. / BOOK XXI. / ARGUMENT.; lines 19554-19691 confidence: high
Achilles' boastful words provoke the raging god; the violated flood considers how to check Achilles and rescue Troy.
Scamander is provoked by the bodies choking the stream and speaks from the flood to restrain Achilles' killing and corpse-heaping.
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