Motif
Sleeping victim perceives attacker as in a dream
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Illusion, Daydream, and Mistaken Reality. 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 24770-24894 confidence: high
At night, Rhesus lies in profound sleep while Diomede stands over him with a sword; the fiction imagines Rhesus seeing the enemy confusedly in a dream as the sword is plunged into him.
The note describes Rhesus in profound sleep, Diomede over him with a sword, and the victim seeing the enemy confusedly as if in a dream.
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