Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l23698-l23815

batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l23698-l23815

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l23698-l23815
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
passage_locator:
  label: THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END
    OF THE ILIAD; lines 23698-23815
  start: '23698'
  end: '23815'
  translation: The Iliad
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage gives editorial notes on Homeric names, allegorical interpretations,
    ritual practices, divine genealogy, fate, Egyptian sacred-ship interpretation,
    sacrifice, and later artistic reception of Homeric Zeus/Jupiter imagery.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The Myrmidons are said to dwell on the southern borders of Thessaly and to
    take origin from Myrmido, son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The note reports a fanciful derivation of the Myrmidon name from the Greek
    word for ant and compares the Myrmidons' diligence and early field-dwelling to
    ants.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: The early Myrmidons are described as living in open fields, with retreats
    in dens and cavities of trees, until Ithacus gathered them into more secure habitations.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:4
  text: Eustathius and others are said to allegorize Minerva's apparition to Achilles,
    unseen by others, as Achilles' sudden recollection to restrain anger.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:5
  text: A poetic image of a tongue dropping manna is compared with a proverb about
    lips dropping as a honey-comb.
  category: other
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: Salt water is described as chiefly used in lustrations because it was thought
    to contain fiery particles; salt could be added to fresh water for lustration.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:7
  text: Heralds are described as inviolable, free to travel without molestation, often
    old men, and under the protection of Jove and Mercury.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:8
  text: Thetis is identified as daughter of Nereus and Doris and as courted by Neptune
    and Jupiter.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:9
  text: Thetis is said to have been married to a mortal after it became known her
    son would be greater than his father.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:10
  text: Peleus is said to have obtained Thetis with difficulty while she eluded him
    by assuming various forms.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:11
  text: Thetis' children are said to have been destroyed by fire during her attempts
    to test whether they were immortal.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:12
  text: Achilles is said to have been rescued by his father and later made invulnerable
    by Thetis plunging him into the waters of the Styx, except for the heel by which
    she held him.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:13
  text: A note states that gloomy destiny rules throughout the Homeric poems and that
    even the gods are not exempt from it.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:14
  text: The passage reports an interpretation connecting an annual Egyptian sacred-ship
    procession and the deity's return from Ethiopia with Homeric Jupiter's visit to
    the Ethiopians and twelve-day absence.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:15
  text: 'A sacrificial distinction is described: victims for celestial gods have the
    throat bent upward, while victims for heroes or infernal deities are killed with
    the throat toward the ground.'
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:16
  text: A note explains that 'crowned' means filled to the brim when referring to
    goblets.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:17
  text: Phidias is said to have identified Homeric lines about Jupiter's majesty as
    the pattern for his Olympian Jupiter statue.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Myrmidons
  description: A people dwelling on the southern borders of Thessaly, described as
    diligent and originally field-dwelling.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Myrmido
  description: Named as son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa and origin figure of the Myrmidons.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Jupiter / Jove
  description: Named as father of Myrmido, suitor of Thetis, protector of heralds,
    figure associated with fate and the Ethiopian absence, and subject of Phidias'
    statue.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  - role:4
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:11
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Eurymedusa
  description: Named as mother of Myrmido.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Ithacus
  description: Said to have gathered the Myrmidons and settled them in more secure
    habitations.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Minerva
  description: Her apparition to Achilles is discussed as visible only to Achilles
    and allegorized as recollection restraining wrath.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Achilles
  description: Recipient of Minerva's apparition; son of Thetis; made invulnerable
    except at the heel in the note's summary.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:6
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Thetis
  description: Daughter of Nereus and Doris; courted by Neptune and Jupiter; wed to
    Peleus; shapeshifts to elude Peleus; tests children by fire; plunges Achilles
    into Styx water.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  - role:12
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Peleus
  description: Mortal husband of Thetis and father who rescues Achilles from the fire-test
    fate.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Neptune
  description: Named as a suitor of Thetis.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Mercury
  description: Named with Jove as special protector of heralds.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Heralds
  description: Persons whose office is described as inviolable and under divine protection.
  role_refs:
  - role:15
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Phidias
  description: Artist said to have used Homeric lines as the pattern for his Olympian
    Jupiter.
  role_refs:
  - role:16
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: ant-like diligent people
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The note compares the Myrmidons with ants in diligence and field-living habits.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:2
  label: eponymous origin figure
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: The Myrmidons are said to take origin from Myrmido.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:3
  label: divine suitor
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:10
  basis: Jupiter and Neptune are named as suitors of Thetis.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:4
  label: divine father
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: Jupiter is named as father of Myrmido.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:5
  label: protector of heralds
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:11
  basis: Heralds are said to be under the especial protection of Jove and Mercury.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:6
  label: divine or ancestral mother
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: Eurymedusa is named as mother of Myrmido.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:7
  label: settler or civilizer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: Ithacus brings the Myrmidons together and settles them in secure habitations.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:8
  label: restraining divine apparition
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: Minerva's apparition to Achilles is allegorized as recollection restraining
    wrath.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:9
  label: recipient of divine warning
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Achilles receives Minerva's apparition unseen by others.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:10
  label: nearly invulnerable child
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Achilles is made invulnerable by Styx water except at the heel.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:11
  label: shapeshifting bride
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: Thetis eludes Peleus by assuming various forms before he obtains her hand.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:12
  label: divine mother testing immortality
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: Thetis destroys her children by fire while attempting to test whether they
    are immortal.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:13
  label: giver of invulnerability
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: Thetis plunges Achilles into the waters of the Styx to render him invulnerable.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:14
  label: mortal husband and rescuer father
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: Peleus obtains Thetis' hand and rescues Achilles from destruction by fire.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:15
  label: protected messenger
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: Heralds are inviolable and free to travel without fear of molestation.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:16
  label: artist inspired by Homeric divine image
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: Phidias cites Homeric lines about Jupiter as the pattern for his statue.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: ant
  literal_form: Ants used as an etymological and behavioral comparison for the Myrmidons.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:2
  label: dens and tree cavities
  literal_form: Retreats in dens and cavities of trees used by early Myrmidons.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - tree
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:3
  label: salt water for lustration
  literal_form: Salt water, or fresh water with salt added, used ritually for lustration.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: sym:4
  label: fiery particles in water
  literal_form: Fiery particles supposed to be present in salt water.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: sym:5
  label: fire test
  literal_form: Fire used in Thetis' attempts to see whether her children were immortal.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:8
  - fig:7
  - fig:9
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:6
  label: waters of Styx
  literal_form: Styx waters into which Achilles is plunged for invulnerability.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:7
  label: vulnerable heel
  literal_form: The heel by which Thetis held Achilles and which was excepted from
    invulnerability.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:8
  label: sacred ship of Ammon
  literal_form: A holy ship with equipment, represented as being towed on its voyage
    in Egyptian festival interpretation.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:9
  label: sacrificial throat direction
  literal_form: Upward or downward orientation of the victim's throat distinguishing
    offerings to celestial gods from offerings to heroes or infernal deities.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:10
  label: brim-filled goblet
  literal_form: A crowned goblet explained as one filled to the brim.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: sym:11
  label: Olympian Jupiter statue
  literal_form: Phidias' statue of Olympian Jupiter, associated with Homeric lines
    of divine majesty.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Myrmidon ant-etymology and settlement
  summary: The note describes the Myrmidons' origin from Myrmido, their fanciful association
    with ants, their open-field and tree-cavity dwellings, and their settlement by
    Ithacus.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Minerva's apparition allegorized
  summary: Minerva's private apparition to Achilles is explained by later commentators
    as a recollection that restrains his wrath.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Lustration with salt water
  summary: The note explains the ritual use of salt water in lustrations and the addition
    of salt to fresh water when sea-water is unavailable.
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:4
  label: Divinely protected heralds
  summary: Heralds are described as inviolable travelers, generally old men, under
    the protection of Jove and Mercury.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: scene:5
  label: Thetis, Peleus, and Achilles' invulnerability
  summary: The note recounts Thetis' courtship by gods, her marriage to mortal Peleus,
    her shapeshifting resistance, the destruction of children by fire, and Achilles'
    partial invulnerability from Styx water.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: scene:6
  label: Fate over gods and mortals
  summary: A cited critical note describes gloomy destiny as ruling throughout Homeric
    poetry and extending even over the gods.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: scene:7
  label: Egyptian sacred-ship interpretation of Jupiter's Ethiopian absence
  summary: The note reports an antiquarian interpretation that relates an Egyptian
    sacred-ship procession and deity's return from Ethiopia to Homeric Jupiter's twelve-day
    absence among the Ethiopians.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: scene:8
  label: Sacrificial orientation
  summary: The note distinguishes sacrifices to celestial gods from those to heroes
    or infernal deities by the direction in which the victim's throat is turned.
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: scene:9
  label: Homeric pattern for Phidias' Jupiter
  summary: Phidias is said to cite Homeric lines on Jupiter's majesty as the pattern
    for his Olympian Jupiter statue, whose viewers were said to marvel at its divine
    likeness.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: animal-name origin and ant-like people
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The Myrmidons are linked by name and behavior to ants, including diligence
    and field-dwelling habits.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage explicitly calls the derivation fanciful and based on equivocation
    of the name.
- id: motif:2
  label: settling field-dwellers into secure habitation
  taxonomy_refs:
  - culture_hero
  basis: Ithacus gathers the Myrmidons from open-field living and settles them in
    more secure habitations.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The note does not present Ithacus as a full culture hero; the role is
    limited to settlement.
- id: motif:3
  label: divine apparition restraining heroic wrath
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: Minerva's apparition to Achilles is interpreted as a sudden recollection
    that anger should be restrained.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The note is explicitly allegorical commentary rather than direct narration
    of the epic scene.
- id: motif:4
  label: ritual purification by salted water
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Salt water is described as used in lustrations, with salt added to fresh
    water when sea-water is unavailable.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  confidence: high
  cautions: No available motif-family taxonomy directly matches lustration.
- id: motif:5
  label: inviolable divine-protected messenger
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Heralds are described as inviolable travelers under the protection of Jove
    and Mercury.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  confidence: high
  cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches protected messengers.
- id: motif:6
  label: prophecy of child greater than father leading to mortal marriage
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_parent_child
  - sacred_marriage
  basis: Thetis is wed to a mortal after it is known that her son would be greater
    than his father.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage states the reason for the marriage but does not develop a
    full marriage myth in this excerpt.
- id: motif:7
  label: shapeshifting bride eludes suitor
  taxonomy_refs:
  - shapeshifter
  - sacred_marriage
  basis: Peleus obtains Thetis' hand only with difficulty because she eludes him by
    assuming various forms.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: The exact forms are not specified in this passage.
- id: motif:8
  label: immortality test by fire
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Thetis' children are said to be destroyed by fire through her attempts to
    see whether they were immortal.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage gives only a compressed mythographic summary.
- id: motif:9
  label: partial invulnerability from sacred water
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Achilles is rendered invulnerable by being plunged into the Styx, except
    for the heel by which Thetis held him.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: No supplied motif-family taxonomy directly corresponds to invulnerability
    by immersion.
- id: motif:10
  label: fate binding gods and mortals
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note states that gloomy destiny extends through Homeric poems and that
    even gods are not exempt.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is a critical generalization about Homeric poems rather than a single
    narrated event.
- id: motif:11
  label: sacred ship procession and divine absence-return
  taxonomy_refs:
  - ark_vessel
  - return
  basis: The passage reports an annual procession of a sacred ship and the deity's
    return from Ethiopia after absence, connected by interpretation with Jupiter's
    twelve-day absence.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The sacred vessel is not an ark in the flood-renewal sense; the link is
    presented as antiquarian interpretation.
- id: motif:12
  label: directional sacrifice to upper and lower powers
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacrifice
  basis: Victim-throat orientation distinguishes sacrifices to celestial gods from
    those to heroes or infernal deities.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage is ritual commentary, not a narrative sacrifice scene.
- id: motif:13
  label: artistic image modeled on divine poetic epiphany
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Phidias is said to cite Homeric lines of Jupiter's majesty as the pattern
    for his Olympian Jupiter statue.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is reception history rather than a mythic episode.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: The passage itself compares a poetic image of sweet or manna-like speech
    with Milton's Paradise Lost and Proverbs' honey-comb imagery.
  claim_level: linguistic_similarity
  target: Milton, Paradise Lost bk. ii; Proverbs v.3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The comparison concerns diction and imagery only, not historical dependence
    or a shared mythic narrative.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The passage reports that Apuleius develops a similar allegorical idea to
    Eustathius' reading of Minerva's apparition as inner restraint of wrath.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Apuleius, De Deo Socratis
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The note does not quote Apuleius or specify the exact passage; the
    comparison is mediated by the editor's summary.
- id: claim:3
  claim: The passage reports an antiquarian interpretation that Homeric Jupiter's
    Ethiopian visit and twelve-day absence allude to an Egyptian festival involving
    the sacred ship of Ammon and a deity's return from Ethiopia.
  claim_level: same_motif
  target: Egyptian sacred ship procession of Ammon / deity's Ethiopian absence and
    return
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: low
  limitations: The passage attributes the link to antiquarian interpretation; it does
    not provide primary Egyptian evidence or prove historical contact.
- id: claim:4
  claim: The passage juxtaposes Greek sacrificial practice with a Virgilian sacrificial-feast
    description, suggesting a functional similarity in ritual slaughter, division,
    cooking, and communal eating imagery.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Dryden's Virgil, Aeneid passage cited in the note
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The comparison is literary and ritual-functional; it does not establish
    direct borrowing.
- id: claim:5
  claim: The passage connects Homeric poetic representation of Jupiter's majesty with
    Phidias' visual representation of Olympian Jupiter.
  claim_level: visual_similarity
  target: Phidias' Olympian Jupiter statue
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The account is anecdotal reception history and does not provide the
    Homeric lines in this excerpt.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23698-23710, note [56]
  quote_or_summary: The Myrmidons are located in southern Thessaly, traced to Myrmido
    son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa, fancifully linked to ants, and described as early
    field-dwellers using dens and tree cavities until Ithacus settled them.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23712-23718, note [57]
  quote_or_summary: Eustathius and others allegorize Minerva's apparition to Achilles,
    unseen by the rest, as sudden recollection that restrains intemperate wrath; the
    note mentions Apuleius working out the same idea.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23720-23726, note [58]
  quote_or_summary: The note compares Milton's image of a tongue dropping manna with
    Proverbs' image of lips dropping as a honey-comb.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23728-23735, note [59]
  quote_or_summary: Salt water is described as chiefly used in lustrations because
    of supposed fiery particles; salt may be added to fresh water for the rite.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23737-23742, note [60]
  quote_or_summary: Heralds are described as inviolable, free to travel without molestation,
    generally old men, and under Jove and Mercury's protection.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23744-23758, note [61]
  quote_or_summary: Thetis, daughter of Nereus and Doris, was courted by Neptune and
    Jupiter; because her son would surpass his father, she was wed to mortal Peleus;
    she shapeshifted to elude him, tested children by fire, and made Achilles invulnerable
    by Styx water except at the heel.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23767-23775, note [65]
  quote_or_summary: A note on adverse Fates states that gloomy destiny reigns throughout
    the Homeric poems and extends even to the gods.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23777-23796, note [66]
  quote_or_summary: The note discusses an annual Egyptian sacred-ship procession,
    the deity's return from Ethiopia, the sacred ship of Ammon, and an interpretation
    that Homer alludes to this in Jupiter's visit to the Ethiopians and twelve-day
    absence.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23803-23812, note [68]
  quote_or_summary: The note explains sacrificial throat orientation for celestial
    gods versus heroes or infernal deities and appends a Virgilian description of
    slaughter, cooking, meat, and wine.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: lines 23814-23815, note [69]
  quote_or_summary: The note glosses 'crowned' as filled to the brim, referring to
    goblets.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: lines after 23815 within provided passage, note [70]
  quote_or_summary: Phidias is said to have cited Homeric lines on Jupiter's majesty
    as the pattern for his Olympian Jupiter statue; viewers reportedly wondered whether
    Jupiter had descended or Phidias had ascended to see him.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
  rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: medium
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: The passage is editorial commentary and mythographic note material rather
    than a continuous epic episode. Motif extraction is strongest where the notes
    summarize explicit mythic or ritual content; taxonomy alignment is sometimes approximate.
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: |-
  Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Long quotations were avoided in favor of concise summaries.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg__l23698-l23815
  passage_sha256=c6c4423e1b4ab0824e92c952dd8fef11fe8e4d545496dac683c6941daf866e0b