batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l4760-l4783
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l4760-l4783
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
label: THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES
/ THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX; lines 4760-4783
start: '4760'
end: '4783'
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 presents fragments attributed to Hesiod''s Marriage of Ceyx:
Heracles lands from the Argo to seek water and is left behind near Aphetae in
Magnesia; he repeatedly visits Ceyx of Trachis and speaks a proverb about good
people going to feasts of the good; Ceyx is called horse-driving; tables are called
tripods; and a feast scene describes dry wood from the forest being brought to
be burned in flames through a figurative expression.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Heracles lands from the Argo to look for water.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Heracles is left behind in Magnesia near the place called Aphetae, with the
fragment explaining this in relation to his desertion there.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Heracles is represented as repeatedly visiting the house of Ceyx of Trachis.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Heracles speaks the saying that the good go of themselves to the feasts of
the good.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Ceyx is described in a fragment as horse-driving and beholding something not
preserved in the excerpt.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: A fragment says that the poem calls tables tripods.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: After desire for an equal-shared feast is finished, dry parched wood is brought
from the forest to be burned in flames, expressed figuratively as a mother of
a mother slain by her own children.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Heracles
description: Heracles lands from the Argo, is left behind in Magnesia, and is represented
as visiting the house of Ceyx of Trachis and speaking a proverb.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Ceyx of Trachis
description: Ceyx is the householder visited by Heracles and is also called horse-driving
in a separate fragment.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Unspecified participants at the feast
description: The fragment refers to people who finish with desire for the equal-shared
feast and then bring dry wood from the forest.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: water-seeking voyager left behind
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Heracles lands from the Argo to look for water and is left behind near Aphetae
in Magnesia.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: guest or visitor to Ceyx's house
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Heracles is represented as constantly visiting the house of Ceyx of Trachis.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: host or householder of Trachis
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The house is identified as the house of Ceyx of Trachis, visited by Heracles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: feast participants who gather fuel
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: After the equal-shared feast, unnamed participants bring dry wood from the
forest.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: water sought by Heracles
literal_form: water
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: flames consuming wood
literal_form: flames
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: forest wood for burning
literal_form: dry parched wood from the forest
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: tripods as tables
literal_form: tables called tripods
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: equal-shared feast
literal_form: equal-shared feast
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Heracles left behind after seeking water
summary: Heracles lands from the Argo to seek water and is left behind in Magnesia
near Aphetae because of his desertion there.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Heracles at the house of Ceyx
summary: Heracles repeatedly visits the house of Ceyx of Trachis and speaks a proverb
about the good attending feasts of the good.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Fuel brought after the feast
summary: After the equal-shared feast, unnamed participants bring dry, parched wood
from the forest to be burned in flames, in a figurative expression about kinship
and slaying.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: voyager left behind after landing for water
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Heracles leaves the Argo temporarily to seek water and the sequence results
in his being left behind in Magnesia.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The fragment is brief and reports a cause involving desertion; it does
not narrate a full departure cycle.
- id: motif:2
label: recurring guest at a noble house and feast proverb
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Heracles repeatedly visits Ceyx's house and speaks a proverb linking good
people with feasts of the good.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage preserves only a reported proverb and does not provide a full
hospitality narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: post-feast gathering and burning of forest wood
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The fragment describes participants after an equal-shared feast bringing
dry wood from the forest to be burned in flames.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: The language is partly figurative and the broader ritual or narrative
context is not preserved.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 'lines 4761-4765, Fragment #1'
quote_or_summary: Hesiod's Marriage of Ceyx says Heracles landed from the Argo to
look for water and was left behind in Magnesia near Aphetae because of his desertion
there.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 'lines 4766-4770, Fragment #2'
quote_or_summary: Heracles is represented as constantly visiting the house of Ceyx
of Trachis and saying that the good go of themselves to the feasts of the good.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: 'lines 4771-4772, Fragment #3'
quote_or_summary: '"And horse-driving Ceyx beholding..."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 'lines 4773-4777, Fragment #4'
quote_or_summary: Athenaeus reports that Hesiod in the Marriage of Ceyx calls the
tables tripods.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 'lines 4778-4783, Fragment #5'
quote_or_summary: After the equal-shared feast, dry parched wood is brought from
the forest and is to be burned in flames, expressed as a mother of a mother slain
by her own children.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The passage consists of short testimonia and fragments with limited narrative
context. Literal extraction is fairly secure, while motif identification is tentative.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the supplied passage does not itself support a specific cross-textual or cross-traditional comparison.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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