batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l24479-l24617
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l24479-l24617
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 24479-24617
start: '24479'
end: '24617'
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 is a set of editorial notes citing examples and parallels:
denial of quarter except for ransom; killing of a suppliant; poetic examples of
slaughter, Trojan women processing to Pallas with offerings, and other literary
parallels; comments on sealed tablets, Bellerophon’s wandering madness, a proverb
about gold exchange, Hector’s allusion to stoning Paris, burial alive as punishment,
Paris’s house, a horse simile, helmet lots, Mars, and the custom of honoring a
person with a larger food portion.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The note states that in battle quarter seems not to have been given except
with a view to ransom of the prisoner.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Agamemnon is described as reproaching Menelaus for softness when Menelaus
is about to spare a fallen enemy, and Agamemnon himself kills the suppliant.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A quoted passage from Rowe's Lucan describes steel striking a bending father
and cutting off a wailing infant at birth.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A quoted passage from Dryden's Virgil describes Trojan women going in procession
to Pallas's shrine, weeping, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and bearing
embroidered garments as gifts.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The note says the sealed tablets were probably hieroglyphic devices and that
the existence of writing in Homeric times is uncertain.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The note connects Bellerophon's melancholy madness with the term Morbus Bellerophonteus
and locates the Aleian field as a plain of wandering in Cilicia.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The note says the exchange involving gold became a common proverb for a bad
bargain.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The note explains Hector's regret that Trojans had not covered Paris with
a mantle of stones as an allusion to popular indignation or a formal mode of punishment
for public offences.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The note says burying prisoners alive with a small amount of food may have
been a practice intended to avoid pollution from bloodshed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The note describes Paris's house as built with skilled masons and emphasizes
strength, convenience, and metallic ornaments more than elegance.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: The note states that lots were customarily placed into a helmet, shaken, and
then selected.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: The note states that giving a larger portion of food was an ancient compliment
to a conqueror or honored person.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Agamemnon
description: A leader who reproaches Menelaus and kills a suppliant fallen enemy
in the note's example.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Menelaus
description: A warrior described as about to spare a fallen enemy before Agamemnon's
reproach.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: fallen enemy / suppliant
description: An enemy who is about to be spared and is then put to the sword.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Trojan dames
description: Women who go in procession to Pallas's shrine with grief gestures and
embroidered garments.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Pallas
description: The heavenly foe whom the Trojan women hope to reconcile at her shrine.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Bellerophon
description: A figure associated in the note with melancholy madness and wandering
in the Aleian field.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Hector
description: A speaker who alludes to the Trojans not stoning Paris.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Paris
description: The person Hector says the Trojans might have covered with stones;
also owner of a lofty house discussed in another note.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: conqueror or honored person
description: A person to whom a larger portion of food is given as a compliment.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: slayer of suppliant
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The note says Agamemnon puts the suppliant to the sword.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: would-be sparer of fallen enemy
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The note says Menelaus is on the point of sparing a fallen enemy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: suppliant enemy
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The fallen enemy is described as a suppliant who is killed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: ritual petitioners
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The women process to Pallas's shrine with lamentation and gifts in hope of
reconciliation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: hostile deity addressed by offerings
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Pallas is called the heavenly foe whom the women hope to reconcile.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: mad wanderer
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The note associates Bellerophon with melancholy madness and the plain of
wandering.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: speaker of public-punishment allusion
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The note says Hector alludes to a popular indignation against Paris.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: possible target of stoning
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The note says Hector regrets the Trojans had not covered Paris with stones.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: recipient of honor portion
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The note states that a larger food portion may be given to a conqueror or
respected person.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: ransom
literal_form: ransom of a prisoner
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Pallas shrine
literal_form: fane or shrine of Pallas
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: embroidered garments as gifts
literal_form: rich embroidered vests carried as presents
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: sealed tablets
literal_form: sealed tablets, probably hieroglyphic devices
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: Aleian field
literal_form: plain of wandering in Cilicia
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: gold bargain
literal_form: exchange involving gold remembered as a bad bargain
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: mantle of stones
literal_form: covering a person with stones as punishment
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: helmet lots
literal_form: lots placed in a helmet, shaken, and drawn
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: larger food portion
literal_form: larger portion of food assigned as compliment
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: No quarter except ransom
summary: The note describes a martial norm in which sparing an enemy is tied to
ransom, and gives Agamemnon's killing of a suppliant as an example.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Trojan women supplicate Pallas
summary: Trojan women process to Pallas's shrine, lament, and carry embroidered
garments as gifts to reconcile the goddess.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Bellerophon wandering
summary: The note connects Bellerophon with melancholy madness and a named plain
of wandering.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Public punishment by stones
summary: The note explains an allusion in which Hector says the Trojans might have
covered Paris with stones, and relates this to popular indignation and formal
punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Drawing lots from a helmet
summary: The note states that lots are placed in a helmet, shaken, and drawn by
participants.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Honor through food portion
summary: The note states that a larger food portion is given to a conqueror or honored
person as a compliment.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Ransom as condition of sparing a defeated enemy
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The passage explicitly links giving quarter in battle to ransom of the prisoner.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is martial and social rather than explicitly sacred; taxonomy
mapping is approximate.
- id: motif:2
label: Supplication of a hostile deity with procession and textile offerings
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Trojan women bring embroidered garments to Pallas's shrine in hope of reconciling
a heavenly foe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The cited wording is a literary parallel from Dryden's Virgil within an
editorial note, not the main narrative of the supplied line range.
- id: motif:3
label: Mad wandering in an exile-like field
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The note associates Bellerophon with melancholy madness and the Aleian field,
glossed as a plain of wandering.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: The note gives an explanatory reference, not a full narrative sequence
of departure or return.
- id: motif:4
label: Communal execution by stoning for public offence
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The note explains covering Paris with stones as popular indignation and a
formal punishment for great public offences.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: low
cautions: The passage does not identify the punishment as divine judgment; taxonomy
mapping is tentative.
- id: motif:5
label: Honor marked by unequal food portion
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The note says a larger portion of food is given as a compliment to a conqueror
or respected person.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes social honor rather than a ritual exchange with
a deity.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself compares the Trojan women's procession to Pallas with
a similar scene in Dryden's Virgil, where women lament and carry garments to a
deity's shrine.
claim_level: same_function
target: Dryden's Virgil, book i, line 670 as cited in note [166]
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is supplied by an editorial note and quotation; it does
not establish historical dependence beyond the cited literary parallel.
- id: claim:2
claim: The note compares Hector's allusion to stoning Paris with broader ancient
practices of formal punishment and with the Roman Vestals as an example for burial
alive.
claim_level: same_function
target: Ancient formal punishments including burial alive of Roman Vestals, as cited
in note [174]
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The note presents this as a possible traditional connection and explicitly
says Homer does not mention burial alive.
- id: claim:3
claim: The note compares the custom of honoring someone with a larger food portion
to examples in Virgil and Genesis concerning Benjamin.
claim_level: same_function
target: Virgil, Aeneid viii.181 and Genesis xliii.34 as cited in note [185]
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage offers only brief cited parallels and no detailed comparison
of ritual setting.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 24479-24484, note [164]
quote_or_summary: In battle, quarter was apparently not given except for ransom;
Agamemnon rebukes Menelaus for sparing a fallen enemy and kills the suppliant.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 24486-24493, note [165]
quote_or_summary: A quoted Lucan passage describes ruthless steel killing a bending
father and a wailing infant.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 24495-24501, note [166]
quote_or_summary: Trojan women go in long procession to Pallas's shrine, hoping
to reconcile their heavenly foe; they lament and carry embroidered garments as
gifts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 24517-24520, note [168]
quote_or_summary: Sealed tablets are described as probably hieroglyphic devices,
while writing in Homeric times is called uncertain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 24524-24529, note [170]
quote_or_summary: Bellerophon's melancholy madness gives a name to Morbus Bellerophonteus;
the Aleian field is glossed as the plain of wandering in Cilicia.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 24531-24532, note [171]
quote_or_summary: A bad bargain involving gold is said to have become proverbial.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 24542-24555, note [174]
quote_or_summary: Hector's regret that Trojans did not cover Paris with stones is
explained as popular indignation or formal punishment; burial alive with scant
food is discussed as a practice avoiding blood pollution, with Roman Vestals cited
as a parallel.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 24557-24567, note [175]
quote_or_summary: Paris's lofty house is discussed as a private dwelling built with
skilled masons and marked by metallic ornaments, strength, and convenience.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 24589-24591, note [181]
quote_or_summary: Lots were customarily placed into a helmet, shaken, and then chosen.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 24614-24617, note [185]
quote_or_summary: A larger food portion was an ancient compliment to a conqueror
or honored person, with Virgil and Genesis cited as parallels.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The supplied passage is primarily editorial commentary and quoted parallels,
not a continuous mythic narrative. Motif candidates are therefore extracted from
note content and should be checked against the base Iliad passage.
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. No external taxonomy IDs beyond the provided motif family list were added.
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