batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l2972-l3112
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-iliad-pope-gutenberg-l2972-l3112
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
passage_locator:
label: THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL
OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 2972-3112
start: '2972'
end: '3112'
translation: The Iliad
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Book II opens with Jove awake while mortals and immortals sleep. To honor
Thetis' son, he sends a deceitful Dream to Agamemnon, commanding it to appear
with false news that Troy can now be taken. The Dream takes the form of Nestor,
urges Agamemnon to muster the Greeks, then vanishes. Agamemnon believes the vision,
dresses in royal and martial gear, summons heralds and a council, recounts the
dream, and proposes testing the army by suggesting a return home while the chiefs
restrain them.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Mortals and the Grecian leaders are asleep, and the immortals are described
as slumbering, except for Jove, who remains awake.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Jove intends to honor Thetis' son and bring the Greeks into the woes of war.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Jove commands a deluding Dream or empty phantom to go to Agamemnon's tent
and tell him to lead the Greeks to battle.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The Dream is instructed to say that Troy is now given to Agamemnon to destroy
and that the divine factions have ceased contending at Juno's suit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The Dream descends to Agamemnon, hovers over his head, and appears in the
form of the Pylian sage Nestor, with a golden wing about the temples.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The Dream admonishes Agamemnon for sleeping, claims to bear Jove's command,
and repeats the promise that Troy can be destroyed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: After speaking, the phantom vanishes, resolving into air and mixing with the
night.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Agamemnon is elated by the dream and imagines taking Troy, but the narration
states that he does not know the future toil, grief, and deaths intended by Jove
and fate.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Agamemnon rises, puts on clothing and sandals, takes up a sword and an immortal
sceptre described as a gift of the gods.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: At morning, Agamemnon sends heralds to summon the bands and goes to the fleet,
where he finds the Pylian prince and calls a council of peers.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: In council, Agamemnon recounts the dream, including its resemblance to Nestor
and its message from Jove.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Agamemnon tells the chiefs to rouse the Greeks to arms but first proposes
testing them by suggesting return across the sea, while the chiefs are to detain
them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jove / Jupiter
description: The ever-wakeful god who sends the deceitful Dream to Agamemnon.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Thetis' son / Achilles
description: The absent hero whose honor motivates Jove's action against the Greeks.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: The Greeks / Grecian army
description: The army whom Agamemnon is ordered to draw into battle and later plans
to test with a proposed return.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Agamemnon / Atrides / Atreus' son
description: The king who receives the deceptive dream, believes it, arms himself,
summons council, and plans a test of the army.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Deluding Dream / empty phantom / vision of the night
description: A supernatural apparition sent by Jove to deceive Agamemnon with a
false command.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Nestor / Pylian sage / Pylian prince
description: A wise elder whose form the Dream assumes; later present when Agamemnon
calls the council by the fleet.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Juno
description: Named in the dream's message as the goddess at whose suit the heavenly
factions have ended their contention.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Heralds
description: Messengers sent by Agamemnon at morning to summon the bands.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Princes / peers / valiant chiefs
description: The leaders gathered in council, whom Agamemnon asks to help rouse
and restrain the troops.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine sender of deceptive vision
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jove commands the deluding Dream to go to Agamemnon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: deceptive supernatural messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Dream is called deluding and flattering, takes Nestor's form, delivers
Jove's command, and vanishes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: deceived king and war leader
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Agamemnon hears the dream, believes the heavenly alarm, and prepares to rouse
the Greeks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: wise elder whose likeness lends authority
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Dream appears as the Pylian sage, renowned for wisdom and age, and Agamemnon
later identifies the likeness as Nestor's.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: army to be mustered and tested
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The Greeks are to be led to battle and later tested by a proposal to return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: absent honored hero
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jove bends his care to honor Thetis' son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: planner of stratagem within council
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Agamemnon tells the chiefs he will propose return while they are to detain
the troops.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:8
label: divine party named in reported heavenly settlement
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Dream says the heavenly factions end at Juno's suit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: summoners of the army
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Agamemnon dispatches heralds to summon all the bands.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: council allies assigned to restrain troops
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Agamemnon asks the chiefs to help rouse the army and to detain them when
he tests them with talk of return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: deceitful dream-phantom
literal_form: A deluding Dream, empty phantom, or vision of the night that appears,
speaks, and vanishes into air.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: trusted elder's form
literal_form: The Dream is clothed in the figure of the Pylian sage Nestor, renowned
for wisdom and age.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: sym:3
label: golden wing
literal_form: A golden wing spread around the Dream's temples while it hovers over
Agamemnon.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: god-given sceptre
literal_form: A massy sceptre described as unstained, immortal, and a gift of the
gods, taken up by Agamemnon.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: lofty towers and devoted wall of Troy
literal_form: Troy's lofty towers and wall are described as destined for destruction
in the Dream's message.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: return across the main
literal_form: Agamemnon proposes that he will urge the troops to measure back the
sea as a test.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Night among sleeping mortals and gods
summary: The passage opens with the Grecian leaders and immortals asleep, while
Jove remains awake and plans to honor Thetis' son by bringing war-woes upon the
Greeks.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Jove commissions the deceptive Dream
summary: Jove orders the deluding Dream to go to Agamemnon's tent and falsely announce
that Troy can now be taken.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Dream visitation in Nestor's likeness
summary: The Dream descends, appears above Agamemnon in the form of Nestor, admonishes
him, delivers the false command from Jove, and vanishes into air and night.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Agamemnon's deceived awakening and arming
summary: Agamemnon rises elated, unaware of the losses to come, dresses, takes sword
and divine sceptre, and prepares to act.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Morning summons and council at the fleet
summary: At dawn, Agamemnon sends heralds to summon the army, goes to the fleet,
gathers the peers, recounts the dream, and lays out a test in which he will propose
return while the chiefs restrain the troops.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:6
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: deceptive divine dream sent to a ruler
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jove sends a deluding Dream to Agamemnon with a false command to muster the
army for battle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage explicitly marks the vision as deluding, but broader classification
beyond this scene should be checked against the surrounding epic context.
- id: motif:2
label: supernatural messenger assumes trusted counselor's form
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Dream appears in the figure of Nestor, a sage renowned for wisdom and
age, to deliver its message.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is based on the passage's explicit association
of Nestor with wisdom, not on a formal external motif index.
- id: motif:3
label: false promise of imminent victory preceding suffering
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Dream promises Agamemnon he can now destroy Troy, while the narrator
says he is blind to Jove's and fate's design and to the grief and deaths still
remaining.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The suffering is forecast within the passage, not fully narrated in this
excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: council stratagem testing the army's resolve
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Agamemnon tells the chiefs he will propose return across the sea to test
the war-weary troops, while they must restrain them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The reaction of the troops occurs outside the final verse excerpted here,
though it is summarized in the argument.
- id: motif:5
label: divinely gifted royal regalia
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Agamemnon takes up a sceptre described as immortal and a gift of the gods
while acting as king and commander.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents the sceptre as divine and royal, but does not explicitly
narrate a legitimacy crisis or enthronement.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2972-3112, opening night scene
quote_or_summary: Sleep seals mortal eyes; Grecian leaders lie in tents; immortals
slumber except Jove, who bends his care to honor Thetis' son and plunge the Greeks
into war-woes.
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 2972-3112, Jove's command to Dream
quote_or_summary: Jove commands the deluding Dream to go to Agamemnon's tent, order
him to lead the Greeks to battle, and announce that Troy is now given to destruction
because the divine factions have ended at Juno's suit.
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 2972-3112, Dream descends
quote_or_summary: The illusion descends and hovers over Atrides' head, clothed in
the figure of the Pylian sage, renowned for wisdom and age, with a golden wing
around its temples.
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 2972-3112, Dream's speech to Agamemnon
quote_or_summary: The Dream rebukes Agamemnon for sleeping, says it bears Jove's
command, tells him to array the Greeks, and repeats that Troy can now be destroyed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 2972-3112, Dream vanishes
quote_or_summary: '"The phantom said; then vanishd from his sight, / Resolves to
air, and mixes with the night."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2972-3112, Agamemnon's delusion
quote_or_summary: Agamemnon imagines sacking Troy, but the narrator states he does
not see what Jove and fate design, or the toil, grief, and slain still to come.
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 2972-3112, Agamemnon arms himself
quote_or_summary: Agamemnon puts on vest, mantle, and sandals, takes a glittering
sword, and bears a massy sceptre described as unstained, immortal, and the gift
of gods.
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 2972-3112, morning summons
quote_or_summary: At morning, Agamemnon sends heralds through the camp to summon
the bands, goes to the fleet, finds the Pylian prince in his black ship, and calls
a senate of peers.
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 2972-3112, Agamemnon recounts the vision
quote_or_summary: Agamemnon tells the chiefs that a divine dream appeared in the
night in Nestor's form and repeated a command from Jove to draw forth the Greeks
because Troy could now be taken.
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 2972-3112, Agamemnon's proposed test
quote_or_summary: 'Agamemnon urges the chiefs to rouse the Greeks to arms, but first
to test the war-weary army: he will propose return across the sea, and the chiefs
must detain them.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/iliad-pope.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based on the provided passage and argument only. Motif labels
are descriptive and should be reviewed for alignment with any formal motif index
or project taxonomy.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly support a comparison to another named tradition or text beyond internal motif-pattern description.
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