batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l13984-l14087
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l13984-l14087
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE
OF VENUS.; lines 13984-14087
start: '13984'
end: '14087'
translation: The Iliad
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Jove declares urgent desire for Juno and compares it to his former loves.
Juno objects that Ida is too exposed and suggests a private bower made by Vulcan.
Jove promises concealment by golden clouds. Earth brings forth flowers and the
divine pair are hidden in clouds; Jove falls asleep under love and sleep. Sleep
then tells Neptune that Jove rests and urges him to aid the Greeks. Neptune rallies
the Greek forces, who exchange arms and march with him leading.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Jove says his present desire is stronger than desire he felt for several previous
earthly and heavenly lovers, from whom notable children were born.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The goddess objects that Ida's height is exposed to mortal and immortal sight
and proposes retiring to a love-bower made by Vulcan.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Jove replies that neither god nor mortal, nor even the sun, will see them
because clouds and gold will conceal them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Earth perceives the divine pair and produces herbs, violets, lotos, hyacinths,
and crocus to form a bed-like setting on the mountain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Golden clouds conceal the heavenly pair, dews descend, the mountain is perfumed,
and Jove sinks into sleep.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Sleep goes to Neptune and tells him that Jove's eyes have been closed by Juno's
love and Somnus's ties.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Neptune urges the Greeks to arm themselves, redistribute shields and weapons
according to strength, and resist Hector and Troy.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The Greek troops assent, change arms, form ranks, and march with Neptune leading
the way.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The passage includes an inserted illustration caption labeled Greek Shield.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jove / Jupiter
description: Cloud-compelling god who desires Juno, promises concealment, joins
her on Ida, and then falls asleep.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Juno / the goddess with charming eyes
description: Goddess addressed by Jove; she raises concern about public exposure
and is named by Sleep as linked to Jove's closed eyes.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Earth
description: Personified Earth perceives the pair and brings forth plants and flowers
beneath them.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Sleep / Somnus
description: Power of slumber who bears a message to Neptune and says his ties have
closed Jove's eyes.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Neptune
description: God addressed by Sleep; he rallies and leads the Greek forces in war.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Greeks / Grecian warriors
description: Warriors urged by Neptune to arm themselves and march; they assent
and change arms.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Hector
description: Trojan warrior named in Neptune's speech as threatening the Greek ships
with fire.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Vulcan
description: Divine craftsman said by Juno to have formed Jove's bower.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Sun
description: Named by Jove as an all-seeing heavenly body that will not behold the
pair.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lovers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:2
basis: The passage describes Jove's desire for Juno and the concealed heavenly pair
in love on Ida.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: sleeping high god
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jove, called the thunderer, is overcome by love and sleep and rests.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: seeker of privacy
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Juno objects to being seen on Ida and proposes a private recess.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: personified fertile ground
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Earth perceives the pair and pours forth herbs and flowers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: sleep-messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Sleep travels to Neptune, delivers news of Jove's sleep, and then flies away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: divine war leader
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Neptune exhorts the Greeks and leads their march in battle array.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: rallied army
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Greek warriors are addressed, rearmed, arranged in ranks, and led forward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: enemy threat
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Hector is cited as threatening the Greek fleet with fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: divine craftsman
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Juno says Vulcan formed Jove's bower.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:10
label: all-seeing witness excluded
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Jove says even the sun, whose eye surveys earth, will not see them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Ida's height
literal_form: mountain height
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: Vulcan-made bower
literal_form: private bower or recess sacred to love
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: golden concealing clouds
literal_form: clouds circumfused in gold concealing the pair
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: spontaneous flower bed
literal_form: unbidden herbs, violets, lotos, hyacinths, and crocus forming a bed
on the mountain
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: sleeping vapours and dew
literal_form: vapours, soft sleep, balmy dew, and celestial dews
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: Greek shield and arms
literal_form: helms, spears, broad shields, ponderous targes, and inserted Greek
Shield caption
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: flaming falchion
literal_form: Neptune's brandished falchion compared to lightning
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Jove urges love and Juno requests concealment
summary: Jove declares overwhelming desire; Juno objects to open exposure on Ida
and points to a private bower made by Vulcan.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Concealed divine union and Jove's sleep
summary: Jove promises invisibility by clouds; Earth produces flowers; golden clouds
hide the heavenly pair, and Jove falls asleep.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Sleep informs Neptune
summary: Sleep travels to Neptune and tells him to act while Jove sleeps under Juno's
love and Somnus's influence.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Neptune rallies and leads the Greeks
summary: Neptune exhorts the Greeks against Hector and Troy, orders arms redistributed,
and leads the armed ranks forward.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: concealed divine lovers on a mountain
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_marriage
- mountain
basis: A divine pair unite on Ida, are concealed by golden clouds, and the earth
responds with spontaneous vegetation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents erotic union and fertility imagery, but not a formal
marriage rite; the taxonomy label is therefore approximate.
- id: motif:2
label: divine beloveds and heroic offspring
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: Jove recalls former mortal and divine lovers and names heroic or divine offspring
such as Pirithous, Perseus, Bacchus, Alcides, Rhadamanth, and Minos.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The list is retrospective speech rather than the main action of the passage.
- id: motif:3
label: sleep of the high god enables battlefield intervention
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Sleep reports that Jove's eyes are closed and urges Neptune to use the hour
to check Troy; Neptune then rallies the Greeks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches this pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: divine arming and martial reordering
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Neptune orders warriors to take appropriate shields and spears, and the troops
change arms before marching under divine leadership.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a battle-command pattern rather than a clearly marked mythic motif
family in the supplied taxonomy.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage can be cautiously read as belonging to the sacred-marriage motif
family because a divine couple's concealed union is accompanied by mountain setting
and spontaneous vegetal abundance.
claim_level: same_motif
target: sacred_marriage motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage emphasizes desire and concealment, not a public ritual
marriage or explicit cosmic creation.
- id: claim:2
claim: Jove's catalogue of former lovers and famous children fits the divine-beloved
pattern in which unions between gods and selected women produce heroic or royal
offspring.
claim_level: same_motif
target: divine_beloved motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The catalogue is embedded as rhetoric within Jove's seduction speech
rather than narrated as separate birth episodes.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 13984-14004
quote_or_summary: Jove says love will not delay and lists former lovers, including
Ixion's wife, Danae, Theban women, Phoenix's daughter, Latona, Ceres, and Juno,
with offspring such as Pirithous, Perseus, Bacchus, Alcides, Rhadamanth, and Minos.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 14005-14020
quote_or_summary: Juno blushes and objects that Ida is exposed to mortal and immortal
sight; she proposes retiring to a love-bower made by Vulcan.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 14021-14026
quote_or_summary: Jove answers that no god, mortal, or even the sun will behold
them, because they will be shaded with clouds and gold.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 14027-14034
quote_or_summary: Earth perceives and produces unbidden herbs and flowers; violets,
lotos, hyacinths, and crocus spread over the mountain ground.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 14035-14040
quote_or_summary: Golden clouds conceal the heavenly pair; celestial dews perfume
the mount, and Jove, oppressed by love and sleep, sinks to rest.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 14041-14052
quote_or_summary: Sleep comes silently to Neptune and tells him to act while Jove
rests, saying Juno's love and Somnus's ties have closed Jove's eyes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 14053-14073
quote_or_summary: Neptune exhorts the Greeks to resist Troy and Hector, calling
for helmets, spears, broad shields, and distribution of heavier arms to stronger
fighters.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 14076-14087
quote_or_summary: The troops assent, change arms, arrange ranks, and march in shining
brass with Neptune leading; his falchion is compared to lightning and mortals
tremble.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:9
type: citation
locator: between 14075 and 14076
quote_or_summary: 'Inserted illustration caption: Greek Shield.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief caption cited.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong for the narrated actions and speeches. Motif
assignment is more interpretive, especially for sacred_marriage, because the passage
depicts erotic union and fertility imagery without an explicit ritual frame.
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 supplied refs.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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