Motif
Wounded indispensable hero absent from battle
wounded_indispensable_hero_absent_from_battle
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family, within the sub-family Wounded, Fallen, and Avenged. 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 THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3913-4058 confidence: high
Philoctetes sails with seven ships of archers but lies on Lemnos in agony from a poisonous hydra wound; Medon leads his forces.
Philoctetes, an unmatched archer, lies wounded on Lemnos, and the narrator says Greece will later wish for him.
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