Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l10946-l11057

batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l10946-l11057

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l10946-l11057
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
passage_locator:
  label: BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 10946-11057
  start: '10946'
  end: '11057'
  translation: The Odyssey
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage consists of editorial footnotes commenting on Homeric cooking
    practices, parallels with the Iliad and other epic traditions, geography, Clytemnestra,
    Menelaus and Orestes at a banquet, heifer slaughter, washing Hector's body, Odyssean
    house architecture, an impossible journey over Taygetus, marriages of Hermione
    and Megapenthes, amber, Helen's entrance with a distaff, and an anecdote about
    men hiding inside a wooden horse in Padua.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: A footnote explains skewers used for grilling meat over ashes and compares
    the practice to outdoor cooking observed in the Troad.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: A footnote compares Odyssean lines with Iliad xvii.567.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: A footnote says the described Aegean geography is correct and probably taken
    from the lost poem called the Nosti.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: A footnote says Clytemnestra's guilt is reduced by explaining that she was
    left unprotected and fell into the hands of a wicked man.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:5
  text: A footnote argues that Menelaus is made to return on the day of Orestes' feast
    and to come to a banquet uninvited by chance.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:6
  text: A footnote says the writer interrupts an Iliadic passage to dwell on the slaughter
    of a heifer and to let Nestor's wife and daughter enjoy it.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:7
  text: A footnote compares lines about washing with Iliad lines that refer to washing
    the dead body of Hector.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:8
  text: A footnote describes an Odyssean yard with sheds around it, a main entrance
    passage, and an upper story for visitors.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:9
  text: A footnote states that the journey of Telemachus and Pisistratus would require
    crossing the Taygetus range, where there had not been a road for wheeled vehicles.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:10
  text: A footnote interprets bracketed lines as an afterthought related to Hermione
    and Megapenthes and says Megapenthes is married there because his sister is being
    married.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:11
  text: A footnote states that Sparta and Lacedaemon are treated as two different
    places, though elsewhere they are understood as one.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:12
  text: A footnote states that amber is not mentioned in the Iliad and associates
    Sicily with amber production.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:13
  text: A footnote refers to a story in the Cypria in which Paris and Helen robbed
    Menelaus of much treasure when sailing for Troy.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:14
  text: A footnote says Helen enters in the middle of supper intending to work with
    her distaff.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:15
  text: A footnote recounts that eight young men pursued by Austrian police hid inside
    Donatello's colossal wooden horse in Padua and were fed by confederates.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Footnote commentator
  description: The first-person editorial voice making observations and comparisons
    in the footnotes.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:5
  - ev:10
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Clytemnestra
  description: A woman whose guilt is said to be extenuated by the writer's explanation.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Wicked man
  description: The man into whose hands Clytemnestra is said to have fallen.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Menelaus
  description: A figure said to return on the day of Orestes' feast and come to a
    banquet uninvited; also said to have been robbed by Paris and Helen in the Cypria
    story.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:13
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Orestes
  description: The giver of the feast on the day Menelaus returns.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Nestor's wife and daughter
  description: Female household figures said to be allowed to enjoy the heifer slaughter
    scene.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Hector
  description: The dead body washed in the Iliadic comparison cited by the footnote.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Telemachus and Pisistratus
  description: Travellers whose journey is described as impossible because it would
    require crossing Taygetus by wheeled vehicle.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Hermione
  description: A woman whose absence and marriage are discussed in the note on bracketed
    lines.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Megapenthes
  description: A man discussed as possibly unmarried elsewhere and married here because
    his sister is being married.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Paris and Helen
  description: The pair said to rob Menelaus of much of his treasure and sail together
    for Troy in the Cypria story.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Eight young men
  description: Young men pursued by Austrian police who hid inside a colossal wooden
    horse in Padua.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Austrian police
  description: The pursuers of the eight young men in the Padua anecdote.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:14
  name_or_label: Confederates
  description: Helpers who fed the hidden young men in the wooden horse anecdote.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: editorial comparator
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker compares practices, texts, and geography across sources and personal
    observation.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: role:2
  label: mitigated guilty woman
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: The note says her guilt is extenuated as far as possible.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:3
  label: corrupting man
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: The note says Clytemnestra fell into the hands of a wicked man.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:4
  label: uninvited banquet guest
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The note says Menelaus comes to a banquet uninvited by chance.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:5
  label: feast giver
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The note identifies a feast given by Orestes.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:6
  label: female witnesses or participants in heifer slaughter scene
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: The note says Nestor's wife and daughter are allowed to enjoy the slaughter
    of the heifer.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:7
  label: washed dead body
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: The Iliadic comparison concerns washing the dead body of Hector.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:8
  label: travellers on impossible wheeled route
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: The note says their journey would require driving over Taygetus, where no
    wheeled road existed.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: role:9
  label: marriage subject
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  basis: The note discusses Hermione's marriage context and Megapenthes being married
    at the same time.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: role:10
  label: treasure-taking sailing pair
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: The note says Paris and Helen robbed Menelaus and sailed together for Troy.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: role:11
  label: robbed treasure-holder
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The Cypria story is described as Paris and Helen robbing Menelaus of treasures.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: role:12
  label: concealed fugitives
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: The young men hide inside a wooden horse while pursued.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:13
  label: pursuers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: The Austrian police are said to be pursuing the young men.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:14
  label: secret providers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:14
  basis: The confederates fed the hidden men.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: skewers
  literal_form: Single, double, or five-pronged skewers used to pierce meat for grilling.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:2
  label: ashes for grilling
  literal_form: Ashes over which skewered meat is laid to grill.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:3
  label: Aegean geography
  literal_form: Geographical description of the Aegean discussed as correct and possibly
    from the Nosti.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:4
  label: heifer
  literal_form: A heifer whose slaughter is emphasized in the commentary.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:5
  label: Odyssean yard
  literal_form: A courtyard with surrounding sheds, a noisy main entrance passage,
    and an upper story.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:6
  label: Taygetus range
  literal_form: Mountain range that Telemachus and Pisistratus would have had to cross.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:8
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mountain
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:7
  label: amber
  literal_form: Amber noted as absent from the Iliad and associated with Sicily.
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: sym:8
  label: treasures of Menelaus
  literal_form: Treasures said to be taken by Paris and Helen.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: sym:9
  label: distaff
  literal_form: Helen's distaff, with which she intends to work when entering during
    supper.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: sym:10
  label: colossal wooden horse
  literal_form: Donatello's colossal wooden horse in Padua, inside which fugitives
    hid.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Skewered meat cooked over ashes
  summary: The note explains the use of skewers to grill meat and compares modern
    outdoor cooking in the Troad with Odyssean and Iliadic practice.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Menelaus returns to Orestes' feast
  summary: The note says Menelaus is made to return on the day of Orestes' feast and
    to come to the banquet uninvited by chance.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: scene:3
  label: Heifer slaughter emphasized
  summary: The note says an Iliadic passage is interrupted to dwell on the slaughter
    of a heifer and include Nestor's wife and daughter.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: scene:4
  label: Odyssean courtyard described
  summary: The note describes a yard with surrounding sheds, a main entrance passage,
    and visitor lodging above.
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: scene:5
  label: Impossible route over Taygetus
  summary: The note says Telemachus and Pisistratus would have had to drive over Taygetus,
    where no wheeled road existed.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:8
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: scene:6
  label: Simultaneous marriage explanation
  summary: The note explains Hermione's and Megapenthes' treatment in terms of added
    lines and simultaneous marriages.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: scene:7
  label: Paris and Helen take Menelaus' treasures
  summary: The note refers to a Cypria story in which Paris and Helen rob Menelaus
    of much treasure and sail for Troy.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: scene:8
  label: Helen enters with distaff during supper
  summary: The note says Helen enters in the middle of supper intending to work with
    her distaff.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: scene:9
  label: Fugitives hidden inside a wooden horse
  summary: The note recounts eight pursued young men hiding for a week inside Donatello's
    wooden horse in Padua while being fed by confederates.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  - fig:14
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: traditional skewered meat over ashes
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note describes skewered meat grilled over ashes and compares observed
    Troad cooking with Odyssean and Iliadic practice.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is a material-culture pattern rather than a mythic narrative motif.
- id: motif:2
  label: uninvited arrival at a feast
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note says Menelaus comes to Orestes' banquet uninvited, with the circumstance
    explained as chance.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage is an editorial explanation of a narrative coincidence, not
    the full story scene.
- id: motif:3
  label: heifer slaughter in epic household context
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacrifice
  basis: The note emphasizes the slaughter of a heifer and the inclusion of Nestor's
    wife and daughter in enjoying it.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The note says 'slaughter' but the excerpt does not provide the full ritual
    context; the sacrifice taxonomy is plausible but should be reviewed.
- id: motif:4
  label: washing the dead hero's body
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note cites Iliadic lines where washing refers to the dead body of Hector.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This motif is present only through a comparative footnote to the Iliad.
- id: motif:5
  label: impossible heroic journey route
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note says Telemachus and Pisistratus' journey would require an impossible
    wheeled crossing of Taygetus.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is a geographical-critical pattern, not necessarily a narrative motif
    in the passage itself.
- id: motif:6
  label: simultaneous family marriages
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note explains Megapenthes' marriage as occurring because his sister Hermione
    is being married.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage does not frame the marriages as sacred or ritual unions.
- id: motif:7
  label: treasure theft by eloping pair
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note refers to Paris and Helen robbing Menelaus of much treasure when
    they sailed together for Troy.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  confidence: high
  cautions: The story is cited from the Cypria, not narrated in full in this passage.
- id: motif:8
  label: woman enters domestic meal with textile tool
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note says Helen enters during supper intending to work with her distaff.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is a domestic scene detail; its broader symbolic significance is
    not stated in the passage.
- id: motif:9
  label: concealment inside a wooden horse
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The note recounts pursued men hiding inside a colossal wooden horse and being
    secretly fed.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  confidence: high
  cautions: The example is a modern historical anecdote in a footnote, not an ancient
    Greek narrative scene in this line range.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: The footnote explicitly compares observed outdoor cooking in the Troad with
    Odyssean and Iliadic cooking practice.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Odyssean and Iliadic outdoor cooking with skewers
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The claim rests on the commentator's personal observation and analogy,
    not on an independent ethnographic study within the passage.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The footnote suggests a specific Odyssean passage was influenced by an Iliadic
    phrase or scene involving Menelaus and a banquet.
  claim_level: linguistic_similarity
  target: Iliad ii.408 and the Odyssean Menelaus banquet passage
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The passage presents the commentator's inference, including speculation
    about unconscious composition.
- id: claim:3
  claim: The footnote says the Aegean geography described in the Odyssey was probably
    taken from the lost Nosti.
  claim_level: historical_contact
  target: The lost poem Nosti
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The source poem is lost, and the claim is qualified as probable.
- id: claim:4
  claim: The footnote compares Odyssean lines with Iliad xxiv.587-588, where similar
    lines concern washing Hector's dead body.
  claim_level: linguistic_similarity
  target: Iliad xxiv.587-588
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The excerpt gives the comparison but not the full Greek or English
    lines.
- id: claim:5
  claim: The footnote states that the last three lines under discussion are identical
    with Iliad xviii.604-606.
  claim_level: linguistic_similarity
  target: Iliad xviii.604-606
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The identical lines are not quoted in this passage excerpt.
- id: claim:6
  claim: The footnote connects Paris and Helen's theft of Menelaus' treasures with
    a story told in the Cypria.
  claim_level: same_motif
  target: Cypria story of Paris and Helen robbing Menelaus before sailing for Troy
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The footnote gives only a brief reference to the Cypria, not the full
    narrative.
- id: claim:7
  claim: The Padua anecdote presents a later example of people hiding inside a colossal
    wooden horse, functionally resembling the concealment motif associated with wooden-horse
    stories.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Concealment inside a wooden horse
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The passage does not explicitly name the Trojan horse in this note;
    the comparison should be reviewed in context.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: quote
  locator: 10946-10952; footnote [26]
  quote_or_summary: The meat would be pierced with a skewer and laid over ashes to
    grill; the commentator says Troad outdoor cooking was done 'exactly in the Odyssean
    and Iliadic fashion.'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
  type: citation
  locator: 10953-10954; footnote [27]
  quote_or_summary: The note cites Iliad xvii.567 and says the Odyssean lines correspond
    to it.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized citation.
- id: ev:3
  type: quote
  locator: 10958-10963; footnote [29]
  quote_or_summary: The geography of the Aegean is said to be correct and 'probably
    taken from the lost poem, the Nosti.'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: 10964-10967; footnote [30]
  quote_or_summary: The note says the writer extenuates Clytemnestra's guilt by explaining
    that she was left unprotected and fell into the hands of a wicked man.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: 10968-10980; footnote [31]
  quote_or_summary: The note argues that an Iliadic banquet scene influenced the Odyssey's
    making Menelaus return on the day of Orestes' feast and arrive uninvited by chance.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: 10981-10986; footnote [32]
  quote_or_summary: The note says the writer interrupts an Iliadic passage to dwell
    on the slaughter of a heifer and to let Nestor's wife and daughter enjoy it.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: 10987-10989; footnote [33]
  quote_or_summary: The note compares the passage with Iliad xxiv.587-588, where the
    lines refer to washing Hector's dead body.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: 10990-11000; footnote [34]
  quote_or_summary: The note describes a Sicilian-type yard, Odyssean sheds around
    the yard, a noisy main entrance passage, and an upper story where visitors were
    often lodged.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: 11001-11007; footnote [35]
  quote_or_summary: The note states that Telemachus and Pisistratus' journey is impossible
    because they would have had to drive over the Taygetus range, where no road for
    wheeled vehicles existed.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: 11008-11025; footnote [36]
  quote_or_summary: The note interprets bracketed lines as an afterthought concerning
    women and explaining the non-appearance of Hermione, while also discussing Megapenthes'
    marriage alongside his sister's.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: 11026-11030; footnote [37]
  quote_or_summary: The note says Sparta and Lacedaemon are treated as different places
    here, though elsewhere the poem treats them as one.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
  type: summary
  locator: 11035-11039; footnote [40]
  quote_or_summary: The note says amber is never mentioned in the Iliad and connects
    Sicily with amber production in the presumed Odyssean age.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
  type: summary
  locator: 11040-11043; footnote [41]
  quote_or_summary: The note refers to the Cypria story about Paris and Helen robbing
    Menelaus of much treasure when they sailed together for Troy.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
  type: summary
  locator: 11044-11047; footnote [42]
  quote_or_summary: The note says Helen enters in the middle of supper intending to
    work with her distaff, implying the diners are a family group rather than a festival
    crowd.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
  type: summary
  locator: 11048-11057; footnote [43]
  quote_or_summary: The note recounts that during the Italian insurrection of 1848,
    eight pursued young men hid for a week inside Donatello's colossal wooden horse
    in Padua and were fed by confederates.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
  type: citation
  locator: 11031-11032; footnote [38]
  quote_or_summary: The note states that the last three lines are identical with Iliad
    xviii.604-606.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized citation.
confidence:
  extraction: medium
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: The line range is a set of editorial footnotes rather than a continuous mythic
    narrative. Extraction therefore emphasizes commented motifs, objects, and intertextual
    comparisons stated in the notes; all interpretive motif labels require review.
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. Taxonomy references were assigned only where directly supportable or plausible from the available list; uncertain sacred-marriage or sacred-theft mappings were avoided.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg__l10946-l11057
  passage_sha256=bb52041365929c28edd13411cb1e1b54ec20ab72c8fb3cb68550d514c783b8d3