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batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l816-l912

batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l816-l912

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l816-l912
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
  label: ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 816-912
  start: '816'
  end: '912'
  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 is an editorial introduction arguing that the Trojan Cycle
    poems are later than the Iliad and Odyssey, then summarizing the contents of several
    post-Homeric epics: the Aethiopis, Sack of Ilium, Little Iliad, Cyprian Lays,
    Returns, and Telegony. It lists events such as the arrivals and deaths of Penthesilea
    and Memnon, the death of Achilles, the wooden horse, the sack and burning of Troy,
    the theft of the Palladium, the causes of the Trojan War, the homecomings of Greek
    heroes, the vengeance of Orestes, and the death of Odysseus at the hands of Telegonus.'
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The passage states that the Cyclic poems are later than the Homeric poems
    and are written around the Iliad and Odyssey.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The passage says the Aethiopis includes Penthesilea coming to aid the Trojans
    after Hector's fall and dying, Memnon arriving and falling, Achilles dying by
    Paris' arrow, and Odysseus and Aias disputing Achilles' arms.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:3
  text: The passage says the Sack of Ilium includes the wooden horse, Laocoon, Sinon,
    the Achaeans returning from Tenedos, the sack of Troy, division of spoils, and
    the city's burning.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:4
  text: The passage says the Little Iliad includes the award of Achilles' arms to
    Odysseus, Aias' madness, Philoctetes' retrieval and cure, Neoptolemus' coming
    to war, Eurypylus' death, the making of the wooden horse, Odysseus' spying, and
    the theft of the Palladium with Diomedes.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:5
  text: The passage says the Cyprian Lays begin with the causes of the Trojan War,
    including Zeus' purpose to relieve the overburdened earth, the apple of discord,
    and the rape of Helen.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:6
  text: The passage says the Returns begins where the Sack of Troy ends and tells
    of departures, fortunes of lesser heroes, Agamemnon's return and death, Orestes'
    vengeance, and Menelaus' homecoming.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:7
  text: The passage says the Telegony tells of Odysseus' adventures after the killing
    of the Suitors, his return to Ithaca, his death at the hands of Telegonus, and
    a concluding double marriage.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:8
  text: The passage ends by saying the end of the Cycle also marks the end of the
    Heroic Age.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Penthesilea
  description: An Amazon who comes to help the Trojans after Hector's fall and dies.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Memnon
  description: An Aethiopian who arrives in a similar way and falls; Antilochus is
    described earlier as slain by Memnon.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Achilles
  description: A hero whose death by Paris' arrow and whose arms are subjects of Cyclic
    episodes.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Paris
  description: The figure whose arrow kills Achilles in the Aethiopis summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Odysseus
  description: A Greek hero connected with the dispute over Achilles' arms, spying,
    theft of the Palladium, post-suitor adventures, return to Ithaca, and death at
    Telegonus' hands.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  - role:5
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Aias
  description: A Greek hero who disputes Achilles' arms with Odysseus and whose madness
    is included in the Little Iliad.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Laocoon
  description: A figure named among the episodes of the Sack of Ilium.
  role_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Sinon
  description: A figure named among the episodes of the Sack of Ilium.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Achaeans
  description: The Greek force whose return from Tenedos is included in the Sack of
    Ilium.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Trojans
  description: The people who admit the wooden horse into Troy in the Little Iliad
    summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Diomedes
  description: Odysseus' companion in the theft of the Palladium.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Helen
  description: The rape of Helen is listed among the first causes of the Trojan War.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Zeus
  description: His purpose to relieve the overburdened earth is listed among the first
    causes of the Trojan War.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:14
  name_or_label: Menelaus
  description: A hero whose departure from Troy and later return home are included
    in the Returns.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:15
  name_or_label: Agamemnon
  description: A hero whose dispute with Menelaus, return, tragic death, and connection
    with Orestes' vengeance are included in the Returns.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:16
  name_or_label: Orestes
  description: The figure who takes vengeance on Aegisthus in the Returns summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:17
  name_or_label: Aegisthus
  description: The target of Orestes' vengeance in the Returns summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:18
  name_or_label: Telegonus
  description: Odysseus' son by Circe who kills Odysseus and later marries Penelope
    in the Telegony summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:19
  name_or_label: Circe
  description: Mother of Telegonus by Odysseus and marriage partner of Telemachus
    at the end of the Telegony.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:20
  name_or_label: Telemachus
  description: The figure who marries Circe at the end of the Telegony.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:21
  name_or_label: Penelope
  description: The figure who marries Telegonus at the end of the Telegony.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: Trojan-side helper who arrives and falls
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  basis: The Aethiopis summary names Penthesilea and Memnon as arriving to aid the
    Trojan side and dying or falling.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:2
  label: Hero whose death and arms generate later episodes
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: Achilles dies by Paris' arrow, and his arms are disputed and adjudged in
    later summaries.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
- id: role:3
  label: Killer of Achilles
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The Aethiopis summary says Achilles dies under the arrow of Paris.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:4
  label: Contestant for Achilles' arms
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  basis: Odysseus and Aias dispute Achilles' arms; the Little Iliad awards them to
    Odysseus and includes Aias' madness.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
- id: role:5
  label: Thief of the Palladium
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  basis: The Little Iliad summary states that Odysseus, with Diomedes, steals the
    Palladium.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:6
  label: Named cause of the Trojan War
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  basis: The Cypria summary lists Zeus' purpose and the rape of Helen among the first
    causes of the war.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:7
  label: Returning Greek hero
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  basis: The Returns and Telegony summaries describe homecomings or returns of Menelaus,
    Agamemnon, and Odysseus.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: role:8
  label: Avenger
  assigned_to:
  - fig:16
  basis: The Returns summary states that Orestes takes vengeance on Aegisthus.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:9
  label: Object of vengeance
  assigned_to:
  - fig:17
  basis: Aegisthus is named as the one on whom Orestes takes vengeance.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:10
  label: Son who kills his father
  assigned_to:
  - fig:18
  basis: The Telegony summary states that Odysseus dies at the hands of Telegonus,
    his son by Circe.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: role:11
  label: Slayer in imitative vengeance pattern
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: The passage says Antilochus, slain by Memnon and avenged by Achilles, is
    modeled on Patroclus.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:12
  label: Participant in deception or infiltration episode
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  basis: The Sack of Ilium summary lists Sinon, the wooden horse, and the Achaeans'
    return from Tenedos among the sack episodes.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:13
  label: Recipients of deceptive object
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: The Little Iliad summary concludes with the Trojans admitting the wooden
    horse into Troy.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:14
  label: Participant in concluding double marriage
  assigned_to:
  - fig:18
  - fig:19
  - fig:20
  - fig:21
  basis: The Telegony summary ends with Telemachus wedding Circe and Telegonus wedding
    Penelope.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: Wooden horse
  literal_form: A wooden horse made by the Greeks and admitted into Troy by the Trojans.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
- id: sym:2
  label: Palladium
  literal_form: A sacred or named object stolen by Odysseus and Diomedes in the Little
    Iliad summary.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_theft
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: sym:3
  label: Apple of discord
  literal_form: An apple named among the first causes of the Trojan War.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:4
  label: Arms of Achilles
  literal_form: The arms of Achilles, disputed by Odysseus and Aias and later awarded
    to Odysseus.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
- id: sym:5
  label: Overburdened earth
  literal_form: The earth described as overburdened and to be relieved by Zeus' purpose.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:6
  label: Burning city
  literal_form: The burning of Troy after the sack.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Editorial argument for the relative date of the Trojan Cycle
  summary: The passage gives reasons for treating the Cyclic poems as later than the
    Iliad and Odyssey, including tradition, avoidance of Homeric ground, imitative
    structure, broader geography, and a different narrative emphasis.
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
- id: scene:2
  label: Aethiopis continuation after the Iliad
  summary: After Hector's fall, Penthesilea and Memnon come to help the Trojans and
    fall; Achilles dies by Paris' arrow; Odysseus and Aias dispute Achilles' arms.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: scene:3
  label: Sack of Ilium
  summary: The summarized poem includes the wooden horse, Laocoon, Sinon, the Achaeans'
    return from Tenedos, Troy's sack, division of spoils, and the burning of the city.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:4
  label: Little Iliad elaboration of the sack tradition
  summary: The summarized poem includes adjudication of Achilles' arms, Aias' madness,
    Philoctetes' cure, Neoptolemus' coming, the making of the wooden horse, Odysseus'
    spying, the theft of the Palladium with Diomedes, and the Trojans' admission of
    the horse.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: scene:5
  label: Cyprian Lays and the causes of the Trojan War
  summary: 'The summarized poem begins with the first causes of the war: Zeus'' purpose
    to relieve the overburdened earth, the apple of discord, the rape of Helen, and
    events leading to the Achaeans'' landing in Troy and the quarrel of Achilles and
    Agamemnon.'
  figure_refs:
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  - fig:3
  - fig:15
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: scene:6
  label: Returns from Troy
  summary: The poem begins after the Sack of Troy and narrates the dispute of Agamemnon
    and Menelaus, Menelaus' departure, the fortunes of lesser heroes, Agamemnon's
    return and death, Orestes' vengeance, and Menelaus' return home.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  - fig:16
  - fig:17
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: scene:7
  label: Telegony after the Odyssey
  summary: After the killing of the Suitors, Odysseus has adventures in Thesprotis,
    returns to Ithaca, dies at the hands of Telegonus his son by Circe, and the poem
    ends with Telemachus marrying Circe and Telegonus marrying Penelope.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:18
  - fig:19
  - fig:20
  - fig:21
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Narrative cycle fills gaps around an earlier heroic epic
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The passage says the Cyclic poems are written around the Iliad and Odyssey
    and describes poems that supply events before, after, and between the Homeric
    epics.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is a literary-structural motif or pattern in the passage, not a single
    mythic episode.
- id: motif:2
  label: Foreign or extraordinary ally arrives to aid a doomed city and dies
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Penthesilea and Memnon are summarized as arriving to help the Trojans after
    Hector's fall and then dying or falling.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage gives only a compressed summary and no details of the deaths.
- id: motif:3
  label: Hero dies by an enemy's arrow
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The Aethiopis summary says Achilles dies under the arrow of Paris.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: No further narrative detail is supplied in this passage.
- id: motif:4
  label: Contest over a dead hero's arms
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The Aethiopis and Little Iliad summaries describe the dispute over Achilles'
    arms and their award to Odysseus, followed by Aias' madness.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not specify the grounds or ritual form of the adjudication.
- id: motif:5
  label: Deceptive war-object admitted inside the city
  taxonomy_refs:
  - trickster_boundary
  basis: The Sack of Ilium and Little Iliad summaries name the wooden horse, its making,
    and its admission into Troy by the Trojans.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  confidence: high
  cautions: The taxonomy link to trickster-boundary is interpretive; the passage itself
    only summarizes the episodes.
- id: motif:6
  label: Sacred theft of a city-protecting object
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_theft
  basis: The Little Iliad summary says Odysseus, along with Diomedes, steals the Palladium.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not explain the Palladium's sacred status or function,
    so that aspect depends on the object's named identity rather than explicit description
    here.
- id: motif:7
  label: War caused by divine purpose, discord-object, and stolen beloved
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  - stolen_beloved
  basis: The Cypria summary lists Zeus' purpose to relieve the overburdened earth,
    the apple of discord, and the rape of Helen among the war's first causes.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The divine-judgment and stolen-beloved labels are supported only in broad
    outline by this compressed editorial summary.
- id: motif:8
  label: Homecoming after war with death, vengeance, and restored narrative continuity
  taxonomy_refs:
  - return
  basis: The Returns summary describes departures and returns from Troy, Agamemnon's
    tragic death, Orestes' vengeance, and Menelaus' return home.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage summarizes multiple nostos episodes without detailed narration.
- id: motif:9
  label: Son kills father after the hero's final return
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_parent_child
  basis: The Telegony summary states that Odysseus returns to Ithaca and dies at the
    hands of Telegonus, his son by Circe.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The parent-child taxonomy reference is only partial because the relationship
    here is not described as divine in the passage.
- id: motif:10
  label: Double marriage resolves surviving characters
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The Telegony summary says the epic ends with Telemachus wedding Circe and
    Telegonus wedding Penelope.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not describe the social or ritual significance of the
    marriages.
- id: motif:11
  label: End of heroic age marked by completion of the cycle
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The passage states that the end of the Cycle also marks the end of the Heroic
    Age.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is an editorial framing claim rather than an episode narrated in
    the mythic action.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: The passage presents the Cyclic poems as later works composed around the
    Iliad and Odyssey, avoiding ground already occupied by Homer.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Iliad and Odyssey as narrative anchors for the Trojan Cycle
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: This is a literary-historical comparison reported by the editor, not
    a direct comparison of mythic variants within the poems themselves.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The passage states that the Aethiopis' Thersites is copied from the Iliad's
    Thersites and that Antilochus slain by Memnon and avenged by Achilles is modeled
    on Patroclus.
  claim_level: same_motif
  target: Iliadic Thersites and Patroclus patterns
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The passage gives the editor's assertion without quoting the relevant
    Cyclic or Iliadic scenes.
- id: claim:3
  claim: The passage says Proclus' analysis of the Sack of Ilium is very similar to
    Vergil's version in Aeneid II, especially in episodes such as the wooden horse,
    Laocoon, Sinon, the sack, spoils, and burning of the city.
  claim_level: same_motif
  target: Vergil, Aeneid II sack-of-Troy episode cluster
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The passage asserts similarity but does not detail Vergil's account
    beyond naming the shared episode cluster.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 816-842
  quote_or_summary: The editor argues that the Cyclic poems are later than the Homeric
    poems, that their poets avoid ground already occupied by Homer, and that the poems
    are written around the Iliad and Odyssey.
  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: lines 828-834
  quote_or_summary: 'The editor says the epics are imitative: the Aethiopis'' Thersites
    is copied from the Iliad''s Thersites, and Antilochus slain by Memnon and avenged
    by Achilles is modeled on Patroclus.'
  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: lines 844-856
  quote_or_summary: The Aethiopis is summarized as including Penthesilea's aid to
    the Trojans and death, Memnon's arrival and fall, Achilles' death by Paris' arrow,
    and the dispute of Odysseus and Aias over Achilles' arms.
  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: lines 856-862
  quote_or_summary: The Sack of Ilium is summarized as including the wooden horse,
    Laocoon, Sinon, the Achaeans' return from Tenedos, the sack of Troy, division
    of spoils, and the burning of the city, and is said to be very similar to Vergil's
    Aeneid II.
  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: lines 864-878
  quote_or_summary: The Little Iliad is summarized as including the award of Achilles'
    arms to Odysseus, Aias' madness, Philoctetes' return and cure, Neoptolemus' arrival,
    Eurypylus' death, the making of the wooden horse, Odysseus' spying, the theft
    of the Palladium with Diomedes, and the admission of the wooden horse into Troy.
  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: lines 880-889
  quote_or_summary: 'The Cyprian Lays are summarized as beginning with the first causes
    of the Trojan War: Zeus'' purpose to relieve the overburdened earth, the apple
    of discord, the rape of Helen, the gathering and landing of the Achaeans, and
    events up to Achilles'' quarrel with Agamemnon.'
  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: lines 891-900
  quote_or_summary: The Returns is summarized as beginning where the Sack of Troy
    ends and telling of Agamemnon and Menelaus' dispute, Menelaus' departure, lesser
    heroes' fortunes, Agamemnon's return and death, Orestes' vengeance on Aegisthus,
    and Menelaus' return home.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 902-910
  quote_or_summary: 'The Telegony is summarized as telling of Odysseus'' adventures
    in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, his return to Ithaca, his death
    at the hands of Telegonus his son by Circe, and a double marriage: Telemachus
    with Circe and Telegonus with Penelope.'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: quote
  locator: line 912
  quote_or_summary: '"The end of the Cycle marks also the end of the Heroic Age."'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
confidence:
  extraction: medium
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: The passage is an editorial summary of lost or fragmentary epic contents
    rather than a continuous primary mythic narration. Motifs are therefore extracted
    from reported contents and should be reviewed against the underlying Cyclic summaries
    where available.
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 external information was used. Empty taxonomy arrays indicate motifs or symbols not directly represented in the supplied available taxonomy list.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg__l816-l912
  passage_sha256=224820516e4e9018464a4f67fd7cbeac8c9a76646ee8dfdf0c52c989303ceae9