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