batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l3293-l3404
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
label: THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY;
lines 3293-3404
start: '3293'
end: '3404'
translation: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage catalogues divine births, divine marriages, and unions between
gods and mortals. It includes Athena's birth from Zeus's head after Zeus swallows
Metis, Hera's birth of Hephaestus without union with Zeus, sea and war deities
born from divine parents, mortal women bearing divine or heroic sons, mortal brides
made immortal, Heracles rewarded after his labours, and several goddess-mortal
unions producing godlike or heroic children.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Zeus gives birth to Tritogeneia/Athena from his own head; she is described
with martial attributes and as delighting in wars and battles.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Hera, angry and quarrelling with Zeus, bears Hephaestus without union with
Zeus.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Zeus deceives and swallows Metis because he fears she may bear something stronger
than his thunderbolt; Athena is then conceived and born from Zeus's head, armed
for war.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Metis remains hidden inside Zeus and is described as Athena's mother, a worker
of righteousness, and wiser than gods and mortal men.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Triton is born of Amphitrite and the Earth-Shaker, owns the depths of the
sea, and lives with his parents in a golden house.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Cytherea/Aphrodite bears Panic and Fear to Ares; they disorder ranks of men
in war with Ares's help.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Semele, a mortal daughter of Cadmus, joins with Zeus and bears Dionysus; the
passage states that both are now gods.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Dionysus makes Ariadne his wife, and Zeus makes Ariadne deathless and unageing
for him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Heracles finishes his grievous toils, marries Hebe on Olympus, and lives among
the undying gods untroubled and unageing.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The Muses are asked to sing of goddesses who lay with mortal men and bore
children like gods.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Demeter joins with Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in Crete and bears Plutus,
who gives wealth to those who encounter him.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Aphrodite seizes young Phaethon, catches him up, and makes him a night-keeper
of her shrine and a divine spirit.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: The son of Aeson leads Medea away from Aeetes after completing labours, brings
her to Iolcus on a swift ship, marries her, and their son Medeus is raised by
Cheiron in the mountains.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: Thetis bears Achilles to Peleus, and Aphrodite bears Aeneas to Anchises on
the peaks of wooded Ida.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Zeus
description: Father of gods and men; gives birth to Athena from his head; swallows
Metis; consorts with several women in the catalogue.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Athena / Tritogeneia / Pallas Athene
description: Daughter born from Zeus's head; martial goddess arrayed in arms of
war.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Hera
description: Angry consort of Zeus who bears Hephaestus without union with Zeus.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Hephaestus
description: Famous son of Hera, lame one, exceptionally skilled in crafts; later
husband of Aglaea.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Metis / Thought
description: Wise daughter of Ocean and Tethys, deceived and swallowed by Zeus;
mother of Athena hidden inside Zeus.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Triton
description: Son of Amphitrite and the Earth-Shaker, wide-ruling sea god who owns
the depths of the sea.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Panic and Fear
description: Terrible gods born to Cytherea and Ares; they drive ranks of men into
disorder in war.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Semele
description: Mortal daughter of Cadmus who bears Dionysus to Zeus and is said to
be now divine.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Dionysus
description: Splendid, joyous son of Zeus and Semele; husband of Ariadne.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Ariadne
description: Daughter of Minos and wife of Dionysus; made deathless and unageing
by Zeus.
role_refs:
- role:10
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Heracles
description: Son of Zeus and Alcmena; after completing great toils, he marries Hebe
and lives among the undying gods.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Hebe
description: Child of Zeus and Hera; wife of Heracles on snowy Olympus.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Demeter
description: Bright goddess joined with Iasion in Crete and mother of Plutus.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Iasion
description: Hero joined with Demeter in a thrice-ploughed fallow.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Plutus
description: Kindly god born of Demeter and Iasion; gives wealth to those into whose
hands he comes.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Aphrodite / Cytherea
description: Goddess associated with love; mother of Panic, Fear, and Harmonia with
Ares; seizes Phaethon; bears Aeneas to Anchises.
role_refs:
- role:14
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Phaethon
description: Young son of Eos and Cephalus seized by Aphrodite and made a shrine
keeper and divine spirit.
role_refs:
- role:18
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: Iason / son of Aeson
description: Completes labours imposed by Pelias, leads Medea away from Aeetes,
returns by ship to Iolcus, and marries her.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:19
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:19
name_or_label: Medea
description: Daughter of Aeetes brought from Aeetes by the son of Aeson and made
his wife; mother of Medeus.
role_refs:
- role:20
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:20
name_or_label: Cheiron
description: Son of Philyra who raises Medeus in the mountains.
role_refs:
- role:21
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:21
name_or_label: Achilles
description: Lion-hearted son of Thetis and Peleus, called the destroyer of men.
role_refs:
- role:22
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:22
name_or_label: Aeneas
description: Son of Aphrodite and Anchises, born on the peaks of Ida.
role_refs:
- role:22
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:23
name_or_label: Thetis
description: Silver-shod goddess subject to Peleus and mother of Achilles.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:24
name_or_label: Anchises
description: Hero joined in sweet love with Aphrodite on Ida, father of Aeneas.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine father and ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Zeus fathers or generates several children and acts as the one who makes
Ariadne deathless.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: deceiver and swallower of mother figure
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Zeus deceives Metis and puts her in his belly to prevent a stronger offspring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: head-born armed goddess
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Athena is conceived after Metis is swallowed and born from Zeus's head in
arms of war.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: non-union mother
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Hera bears Hephaestus without union with Zeus because of anger and strife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: craftsman god child
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Hephaestus is described as skilled in crafts more than all sons of Heaven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:6
label: hidden wise mother
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Metis remains inside Zeus and is described as wiser than gods and mortals.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: sea-depth ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Triton owns the depths of the sea and lives with his divine parents in a
golden house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: war-disordering deities
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Panic and Fear drive close ranks of men into disorder in numbing war.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: mortal mother of divine child
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Semele is called a mortal woman who bears Dionysus, an immortal son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: made or living divine
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: Semele is said to now be a god; Ariadne is made deathless and unageing; Heracles
lives among undying gods.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: immortal child and divine bridegroom
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Dionysus is born to Semele and later makes Ariadne his wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:12
label: divine or immortal bride
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:12
basis: Ariadne becomes deathless as Dionysus's wife; Hebe becomes Heracles's wife
on Olympus.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:13
label: hero who completes labours
assigned_to:
- fig:11
- fig:18
basis: Heracles finishes grievous toils; the son of Aeson finishes labours imposed
by Pelias.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: role:14
label: goddess in union with mortal man
assigned_to:
- fig:13
- fig:16
- fig:23
basis: The passage introduces goddesses who lie with mortal men; Demeter, Aphrodite,
and Thetis are examples in the catalogue.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:12
- id: role:15
label: mortal or heroic male beloved of goddess
assigned_to:
- fig:14
- fig:24
basis: Iasion joins with Demeter; Anchises joins with Aphrodite.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:12
- id: role:16
label: wealth-bestowing offspring
assigned_to:
- fig:15
basis: Plutus makes rich the person who finds him or into whose hands he comes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:17
label: seizing goddess
assigned_to:
- fig:16
basis: Aphrodite seizes Phaethon and makes him a shrine keeper and divine spirit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:18
label: seized youth made divine attendant
assigned_to:
- fig:17
basis: Phaethon is caught up by Aphrodite and made night-keeper of her shrine, a
divine spirit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:19
label: bride-bringing voyager
assigned_to:
- fig:18
basis: Iason brings Medea to Iolcus on a swift ship and marries her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:20
label: bride led away after labours
assigned_to:
- fig:19
basis: Medea is led away from Aeetes after the labours and made Iason's wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:21
label: mountain fosterer
assigned_to:
- fig:20
basis: Cheiron brings up Medeus in the mountains.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:22
label: heroic child of divine-mortal union
assigned_to:
- fig:21
- fig:22
basis: Achilles is born of Thetis and Peleus; Aeneas is born of Aphrodite and Anchises.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: head birth
literal_form: Zeus's head as the place from which Athena is born
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: belly or inward hiding place
literal_form: Zeus's belly and inward parts where Metis is swallowed and hidden
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: war arms
literal_form: Athena's host-scaring weapon and arms of war
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: river Trito
literal_form: banks of the river Trito where Athena is born
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: sea depths
literal_form: depths of the sea and briny sea
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: thrice-ploughed fallow
literal_form: a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Crete
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:15
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: night shrine
literal_form: Aphrodite's shrine where Phaethon becomes keeper by night
associated_figures:
- fig:16
- fig:17
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:8
label: swift ship
literal_form: the swift ship on which Iason brings Medea to Iolcus
associated_figures:
- fig:18
- fig:19
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:9
label: mountains
literal_form: mountains where Cheiron raises Medeus; peaks of wooded Ida where Aeneas
is born
associated_figures:
- fig:20
- fig:22
- fig:24
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Exceptional births of Athena and Hephaestus
summary: Zeus produces Athena from his head, while Hera bears Hephaestus without
union with Zeus because of anger and quarrel.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Metis swallowed and Athena armed
summary: Zeus deceives and swallows Metis to prevent a stronger child; Athena is
conceived, remains connected to the hidden Metis, and is born from Zeus's head
near the river Trito in war gear.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Sea and battle offspring
summary: Triton is born to Amphitrite and the Earth-Shaker and rules sea depths;
Panic and Fear are born to Aphrodite and Ares and disorder men in battle.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:16
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Mortal women, divine sons, and immortal brides
summary: Semele bears Dionysus to Zeus and is said to become divine; Alcmena bears
Heracles; Dionysus marries Ariadne, whom Zeus makes deathless and unageing.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Heracles after the toils
summary: After completing grievous toils, Heracles marries Hebe on Olympus and lives
untroubled and unageing among the gods.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Goddesses joined with mortal men
summary: The passage introduces a catalogue of goddesses who lay with mortal men
and bear godlike children, including Demeter with Iasion producing Plutus.
figure_refs:
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:15
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:7
label: Phaethon seized by Aphrodite
summary: Aphrodite takes the youthful Phaethon and turns him into a night shrine-keeper
and divine spirit.
figure_refs:
- fig:16
- fig:17
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: Iason brings Medea from Aeetes
summary: After completing labours imposed by Pelias, Iason leads Medea away from
Aeetes, returns to Iolcus by ship, marries her, and their son is raised by Cheiron
in the mountains.
figure_refs:
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:9
label: Thetis and Aphrodite bear heroic sons
summary: Thetis bears Achilles to Peleus, and Aphrodite bears Aeneas to Anchises
on the wooded peaks of Ida.
figure_refs:
- fig:16
- fig:21
- fig:22
- fig:23
- fig:24
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Head birth after swallowing the mother
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
- miraculous_child
- wisdom
basis: Athena's birth follows Zeus swallowing Metis, who is explicitly wise; Athena
is then born from Zeus's head, armed for war.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy labels are broad; the passage presents a specific Greek genealogical
episode rather than an abstract doctrine.
- id: motif:2
label: Birth without sexual union
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
- miraculous_child
- divine_parent_child
basis: Hera bears Hephaestus without union with Zeus during anger and marital strife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the cause as quarrel and anger, not as a general virgin-birth
pattern.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine-mortal union producing godlike or heroic child
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- sacred_marriage
- sacred_birth
basis: The passage explicitly announces goddesses who lay with mortal men and bore
children like gods; examples include Demeter and Iasion, Thetis and Peleus, and
Aphrodite and Anchises.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: Some unions are described as love or subjection through Aphrodite rather
than formal marriage.
- id: motif:4
label: Mortal transformed into deathless or divine being
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Semele is said to now be a god; Ariadne is made deathless and unageing; Heracles
lives among the undying gods after his toils.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states immortal status but does not narrate a full ascent
or transformation process for each figure.
- id: motif:5
label: Heroic labours completed before marriage and settled status
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
- return
basis: Heracles finishes grievous toils before marriage to Hebe and divine life;
Iason finishes labours before returning to Iolcus with Medea as wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is genealogical and summarizes the labours rather than narrating
the ordeals.
- id: motif:6
label: Agricultural fertility union producing wealth
taxonomy_refs:
- mother_goddess
- seasonal_cycle
- sacred_marriage
basis: Demeter joins with Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in Crete and bears
Plutus, a god who bestows wealth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The seasonal aspect is inferred from Demeter, the fallow, and Plutus;
the passage itself emphasizes wealth and the ploughed field.
- id: motif:7
label: Youth seized by goddess and made shrine attendant
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
- divine_beloved
basis: Aphrodite seizes young Phaethon, catches him up, and makes him a keeper of
her shrine by night and a divine spirit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The text does not explicitly call Phaethon Aphrodite's beloved; the motif
label rests on seizure by a love goddess and divine service.
- id: motif:8
label: Mountain fosterage by Cheiron
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- initiation
basis: Medeus, child of Iason and Medea, is brought up by Cheiron in the mountains.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: low
cautions: Only a brief fosterage notice is given; the passage does not describe
instruction or initiation.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: ll. 924-929
quote_or_summary: Zeus gives birth from his own head to Tritogeneia/Athena; Hera,
angry and quarrelling with Zeus, bears Hephaestus without union with him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: ll. 929a-929t
quote_or_summary: Zeus deceives and swallows Metis for fear she might bear something
stronger than his thunderbolt; Athena is conceived, born from Zeus's head by the
river Trito, and arrayed in arms of war; Metis remains hidden within Zeus and
is called wiser than gods and mortals.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: ll. 930-933
quote_or_summary: Amphitrite and the Earth-Shaker produce Triton, who owns the depths
of the sea and lives with his parents in a golden house.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: ll. 933-937
quote_or_summary: Cytherea bears Panic and Fear to Ares; they disorder the ranks
of men in war, and she also bears Harmonia.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: ll. 938-944
quote_or_summary: Maia bears Hermes to Zeus; Semele bears Dionysus to Zeus, a mortal
woman bearing an immortal son, and both are now gods; Alcmena bears Heracles to
Zeus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: ll. 945-949
quote_or_summary: Hephaestus marries Aglaea; Dionysus marries Ariadne, and Zeus
makes Ariadne deathless and unageing for Dionysus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: ll. 950-955
quote_or_summary: Heracles completes grievous toils, marries Hebe on Olympus, and
lives among the undying gods untroubled and unageing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: ll. 963-968
quote_or_summary: '"deathless one who lay with mortal men and bare children like
unto gods"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: ll. 969-974
quote_or_summary: Demeter joins with Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in Crete
and bears Plutus, who makes wealthy those who find him or into whose hands he
comes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: ll. 984-991
quote_or_summary: Eos bears Memnon and other sons; Aphrodite seizes young Phaethon
and makes him keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: ll. 993-1002
quote_or_summary: The son of Aeson completes labours imposed by Pelias, leads Medea
away from Aeetes, returns to Iolcus with her on a swift ship, marries her, and
their son Medeus is raised by Cheiron in the mountains.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: ll. 1003-1010
quote_or_summary: Psamathe bears Phocus to Aeacus; Thetis bears Achilles to Peleus;
Aphrodite bears Aeneas to Anchises on the peaks of wooded Ida.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Genealogical relationships and literal actions are explicit. Motif labels
are mostly broad taxonomy mappings and should be reviewed, especially where only
brief catalogue notices are given. No comparison claims were added because the
passage itself does not support external comparison.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Taxonomy references are limited to the available list supplied in the request.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg__l3293-l3404
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