Motif
unheeded prophecy before catastrophe
unheeded_prophecy_before_catastrophe
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Omen Interpretation and Response. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 980-1059 confidence: high
The Trojans open the walls, attach wheels and ropes to the wooden engine, draw it into the city with hymns, hear armor sound within it four times at the gateway, ignore Cassandra’s warning, and prepare the city festively before nightfall.
Cassandra speaks of the coming doom, but the Trojans do not believe her before the Greeks emerge and sack the city.
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