batch.motif.roman-ovid-metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley-gutenberg-l9093-l9130
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passage_locator:
label: EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines
9093-9130
start: '9093'
end: '9130'
translation: The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage consists of explanatory footnotes to Book Thirteen. It identifies
Ajax as gesturing toward Diomedes when referring to Ulysses' exploits; gives genealogical
and military details for Eurypilus, Thoas son of Andremon, Idomeneus, and Meriones;
explains Lemnos as the country of Hypsipyle, who saved her father Thoas when Lemnian
women killed the males; identifies Thrace as a foreign country; describes Cassandra
as Apollo's priestess, ravished by Ajax Oileus, captured by Agamemnon, and killed
by Clytemnestra; and notes that Ulysses threw Astyanax from a high tower so no
royal blood would survive.
language: English
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text: Ajax is said to nod at or point toward Diomedes in connection with Ulysses'
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text: Diomedes is described as Ulysses' constant companion in the exploits named
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text: Eurypilus is identified as the son of Evaemon and as having come with forty
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text: Thoas, son of Andremon, is identified as leader of the Aetolians and as having
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text: Idomeneus is identified as son of Deucalion, king of Crete, and as later settling
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text: Meriones is identified as the nephew and charioteer of Idomeneus.
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text: Hypsipyle saved the life of her father Thoas when the other women of Lemnos
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text: Thrace is identified as a foreign region away from the unnamed woman's native
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text: Cassandra is identified as the priestess of Apollo.
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text: Cassandra is described as ravished by Ajax Oileus, then becoming Agamemnon's
captive, and being slain by Clytemnestra.
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text: Astyanax is identified as the only child of Hector and Andromache.
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text: Ulysses threw Astyanax from the top of a high tower so that none of the royal
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name_or_label: Andremon
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name_or_label: Idomeneus
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after Troy.
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- ev:4
- ev:5
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name_or_label: Deucalion
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- role:5
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- ev:4
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name_or_label: Meriones
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- ev:5
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name_or_label: Hypsipyle
description: Associated with Lemnos; saved her father Thoas when the other women
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- ev:7
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name_or_label: Thoas, father of Hypsipyle
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- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
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name_or_label: Women of Lemnos
description: Women of the island who slew the males, except for Hypsipyle's saved
father Thoas.
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- role:12
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- ev:7
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name_or_label: Cassandra
description: Priestess of Apollo; ravished by Ajax Oileus, became captive of Agamemnon,
and was slain by Clytemnestra.
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- role:14
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Apollo
description: Deity of whom Cassandra was priestess.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Ajax Oileus
description: Figure said to have ravished Cassandra.
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- ev:9
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name_or_label: Agamemnon
description: Figure who held Cassandra as captive.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:9
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name_or_label: Clytemnestra
description: Figure said to have slain Cassandra.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:9
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name_or_label: Astyanax
description: Only child of Hector and Andromache; thrown from a high tower by Ulysses.
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- role:21
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- ev:10
- id: fig:20
name_or_label: Hector
description: Father of Astyanax.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:21
name_or_label: Andromache
description: Mother of Astyanax.
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- ev:10
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- fig:3
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- id: role:4
label: Greek ally with ships
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basis: Eurypilus came with forty ships to aid the Greeks.
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- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:9
- fig:20
basis: Each is identified as a father in the footnotes.
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- ev:3
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- ev:10
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label: military leader
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war.
evidence_refs:
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- id: role:7
label: postwar settler
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- fig:8
basis: Idomeneus settled at Salentinum after the siege of Troy.
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- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: king
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- fig:9
basis: Deucalion is called king of Crete.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: nephew and charioteer
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- fig:10
basis: Meriones is described as Idomeneus' nephew and charioteer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: rescuer of father
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- fig:11
basis: Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: rescued father
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- fig:12
basis: Thoas' life was saved by his daughter Hypsipyle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:12
label: killers of males
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- fig:13
basis: The other women of Lemnos slew the males.
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- ev:7
- id: role:13
label: priestess
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- fig:14
basis: Cassandra is called the priestess of Apollo.
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label: captive
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- fig:14
basis: Cassandra became the captive of Agamemnon.
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- ev:9
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label: victim slain
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- fig:14
basis: Cassandra was slain by Clytemnestra.
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label: deity served by priestess
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basis: Cassandra is described as Apollo's priestess.
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label: ravisher
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basis: Ajax Oileus is said to have ravished Cassandra.
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label: holder of captive
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basis: Cassandra became captive of Agamemnon.
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label: slayer
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basis: Clytemnestra slew Cassandra.
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- ev:9
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label: royal child
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- fig:19
basis: Astyanax was the only child of Hector and Andromache, and the note refers
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label: child victim
assigned_to:
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basis: Astyanax was thrown from the top of a high tower by Ulysses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:22
label: mother
assigned_to:
- fig:21
basis: Andromache is identified as mother of Astyanax.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
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label: Lemnos
literal_form: island country of Hypsipyle
associated_figures:
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:2
label: forty ships
literal_form: ships brought by Eurypilus and by Thoas son of Andremon
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: high tower
literal_form: top of a high tower from which Astyanax was thrown
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- fig:19
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:4
label: royal blood
literal_form: surviving royal blood of Astyanax's line
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- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Ajax gestures toward Diomedes
summary: Ajax is explained as nodding at or pointing toward Diomedes because Diomedes
had helped Ulysses in the exploits Ajax names.
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- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Greek allies identified by lineage and ships
summary: Eurypilus and Thoas son of Andremon are identified by parentage, place
or people, and their forty-ship contributions to the Greeks or Trojan war.
figure_refs:
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- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
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evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Idomeneus and Meriones identified
summary: Idomeneus is identified as son of Deucalion, king of Crete, and as later
settling in Italy; Meriones is identified as Idomeneus' nephew and charioteer.
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- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Hypsipyle saves Thoas during Lemnian killings
summary: Hypsipyle saves her father Thoas when the other women of Lemnos slay the
males on the island.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Cassandra's violation, captivity, and death
summary: Cassandra, Apollo's priestess, is said to be ravished by Ajax Oileus, taken
captive by Agamemnon, and slain by Clytemnestra.
figure_refs:
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
- fig:18
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Death of Astyanax to end royal survival
summary: Astyanax, only child of Hector and Andromache, is thrown from a high tower
by Ulysses so that no royal blood might survive.
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- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
symbol_refs:
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- sym:4
evidence_refs:
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- id: motif:1
label: daughter saves father during communal killing
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Hypsipyle saves her father Thoas while the other women of Lemnos kill the
males.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is an explanatory footnote and gives only a compressed summary,
not the full narrative context.
- id: motif:2
label: priestess violated, captured, and killed
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Cassandra is identified as Apollo's priestess and is described in sequence
as ravished, made captive, and slain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The note summarizes several events without narrating their circumstances.
- id: motif:3
label: elimination of royal child to prevent dynastic survival
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Astyanax, the only child of Hector and Andromache, is thrown from a tower
by Ulysses so that no royal blood might survive.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is limited to the explicit concern with survival
of royal blood; the passage does not frame the act as legitimate rule-making.
- id: motif:4
label: postwar migration and settlement after Troy
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: Idomeneus is said to settle at Salentinum in Italy after the siege of Troy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: low
cautions: Only a brief biographical note is given; the passage does not narrate
a full return or nostos pattern.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9093-9097; Footnote 42, Ver. 350
quote_or_summary: Ajax is supposed to nod at or point toward Diomedes, who helped
Ulysses and was his constant companion in exploits.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9099-9101; Footnote 43, Ver. 357
quote_or_summary: Eurypilus was son of Evaemon, from Ormenius in Thessaly, and came
with forty ships to aid the Greeks.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 9103-9105; Footnote 44, Ver. 357
quote_or_summary: Thoas, son of Andremon, led the Aetolians and came with forty
ships to the Trojan war.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 9107-9110; Footnote 45, Ver. 358
quote_or_summary: Idomeneus was son of Deucalion, king of Crete, and settled at
Salentinum in Italy after Troy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 9112-9114; Footnote 46, Ver. 359
quote_or_summary: Meriones was the nephew and charioteer of Idomeneus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 9116-9117; Footnote 47, Ver. 398
quote_or_summary: The note directs the reader to a note on Book 10, line 207, for
'To the name.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 9119-9122; Footnote 48, Ver. 399
quote_or_summary: Lemnos is called Hypsipyle's country; Hypsipyle saved her father
Thoas when other Lemnian women slew the males.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 9124-9125; Footnote 49, Ver. 406
quote_or_summary: Thrace is identified as far away from the woman's native country.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 9127-9130; Footnote 50, Ver. 410
quote_or_summary: Cassandra was Apollo's priestess, was ravished by Ajax Oileus,
became Agamemnon's captive, and was slain by Clytemnestra.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 9132-9134; Footnote 51, Ver. 415
quote_or_summary: Astyanax was the only child of Hector and Andromache; Ulysses
threw him from a high tower so no royal blood might survive.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is composed of translator's explanatory footnotes rather than
continuous narrative. Extraction is strongest for named figures and summarized
events, but motif identification is limited by compressed context. No comparison
claims are made because the passage itself does not support a cautious comparative
claim beyond local Trojan-war references.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
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extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
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