Motif
Warrior displays severed enemy head and taunts opponents
warrior_displays_severed_enemy_head_and_taunts_opponents
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Aftermath and Spoils. 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 BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.; lines 14216-14272 confidence: high
Peneleus turns against a fleeing boaster; Ilioneus receives the spear in the eye and neck, falls, is beheaded, and the head is lifted with the lance still through the bleeding eye.
Peneleus cuts off Ilioneus's head, raises the gory face, speaks insultingly to the Trojans, and then tosses the head on high.
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