batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l5819-l5919
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-odyssey-butler-gutenberg-l5819-l5919
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK
XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 5819-5919
start: '5819'
end: '5919'
translation: The Odyssey
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The Phaeacians land the sleeping Ulysses on Ithaca with his gifts and depart.
Neptune complains to Jove that the Phaeacians have disregarded him by escorting
Ulysses safely home, and with Jove's permission turns the returning Phaeacian
ship into stone near shore. Alcinous recognizes the event as fulfilling an old
prophecy and orders sacrifice to Neptune. Meanwhile Ulysses wakes on his native
soil but, under Minerva's fog, does not recognize it; he laments, counts his gifts,
and then sees Minerva approaching in the guise of a young shepherd.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The Phaeacians bring their ship into a known harbour and land Ulysses while
he is still asleep, with his rug and linen sheet.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Phaeacians place Ulysses' presents together by the root of an olive tree,
away from the road, to reduce the risk of theft before he wakes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Neptune complains to Jove that the Phaeacians, whom he calls his own flesh
and blood, have brought Ulysses home asleep and loaded with gifts.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Neptune proposes to wreck the returning Phaeacian ship and to bury the Phaeacian
city under a huge mountain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Jove advises Neptune to turn the ship into a rock near land while the city
watches, and says Neptune can then bury the city under the mountain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Neptune goes to Scheria, turns the approaching ship into stone, and roots
it in the ground with the flat of his hand.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The Phaeacians are confused by the ship being rooted in the sea just as it
was entering port.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Alcinous recalls an old prophecy that Neptune would be angry about Phaeacian
escorts, wreck one ship returning from an escort, and bury the city under a high
mountain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Alcinous instructs the Phaeacians to stop escorting strangers and to sacrifice
twelve picked bulls to Neptune so that he may have mercy and not bury the city.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The Phaeacian chiefs and rulers pray to Neptune around his altar.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: Ulysses wakes on his own soil but does not recognize it because he has been
away long and because Minerva has made the day foggy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: Minerva creates the fog so that people will not know Ulysses has come and
so she can tell him everything before others recognize him and before he takes
revenge on the suitors.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:13
text: Ulysses sees the tracks, harbours, precipices, and trees as changed, strikes
his thighs, and cries out in despair.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:14
text: Ulysses fears he may be among savage or uncivilized people, worries about
where to place his treasure, and accuses the Phaeacians of leaving him in the
wrong country.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:15
text: Ulysses counts his coppers, cauldrons, gold, and clothes, finds nothing missing,
and continues grieving along the shore.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:16
text: Minerva approaches Ulysses disguised as a young shepherd with princely appearance,
cloak, sandals, and a javelin.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Ulysses
description: Sleeping voyager landed on Ithaca; later wakes, fails to recognize
his homeland, laments, counts his goods, and meets Minerva in disguise.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Phaeacian escorts
description: The people who bring Ulysses by ship to Ithaca, set him and his gifts
ashore, and return home.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Neptune
description: God angered by the Phaeacian escort of Ulysses; requests punishment,
turns the ship to stone, and is addressed with prayer and sacrifice.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Jove
description: God whom Neptune consults; permits Neptune to punish the mortals and
recommends turning the ship into a rock.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Alcinous
description: Phaeacian ruler who recalls his father's prophecy and orders cessation
of escorts and sacrifice to Neptune.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Phaeacian people, chiefs, and rulers
description: Community witnessing the stone ship, becoming afraid, preparing bulls,
and praying around Neptune's altar.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Minerva
description: Jove's daughter who makes the day foggy to conceal Ulysses and later
approaches him disguised as a young shepherd.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Alcinous's father
description: Remembered source of the old prophecy about Neptune's anger, the wrecked
Phaeacian ship, and the mountain over the city.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: returned but unknowing homecomer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Ulysses is landed on his own soil while asleep and later wakes without recognizing
Ithaca.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: safe sea escorts
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They transport Ulysses safely over the sea, land him in Ithaca, and depart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: offended divine punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Neptune complains of disrespect and then petrifies the returning Phaeacian
ship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: divine authorizer of punishment
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Jove tells Neptune that dealing with disrespectful mortals rests with him
and recommends the form of punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: ruler interpreting fulfilled prophecy
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Alcinous identifies the ship's fate as fulfillment of his father's prophecy
and commands communal action.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: concealing goddess in disguise
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Minerva creates fog to conceal Ulysses' return and appears as a young shepherd.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: remembered prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Alcinous cites his father's earlier prediction about Neptune's future punishment
of the Phaeacians.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: threatened sacrificial community
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Phaeacians fear the fulfilled prophecy and prepare bulls and prayers
for Neptune.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: olive tree hiding-place
literal_form: root of the olive tree where gifts are placed away from the road
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: petrified ship
literal_form: Phaeacian ship turned into stone and rooted near the shore
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: high mountain threat
literal_form: huge or high mountain proposed as a covering for the Phaeacian city
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: concealing fog
literal_form: foggy day made by Minerva over Ithaca
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: twelve sacrificial bulls
literal_form: twelve picked bulls prepared for sacrifice to Neptune
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: sea and harbour
literal_form: harbour, shore, and sounding sea around Ithaca and Scheria
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: unrecognized native land
literal_form: Ulysses' own soil, with tracks, harbours, precipices, and trees appearing
changed
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: shepherd disguise
literal_form: Minerva's appearance as a young shepherd with cloak, sandals, and
javelin
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Sleeping landing on Ithaca
summary: The Phaeacian escorts land the sleeping Ulysses on the sand and place his
gifts by the root of an olive tree before returning home.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Neptune seeks punishment for the escort
summary: Neptune complains to Jove about the Phaeacians' safe transport of Ulysses
and asks to wreck the ship and bury their city; Jove permits and shapes the punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:2
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Ship turned to stone near Scheria
summary: Neptune approaches the returning Phaeacian ship near Scheria, turns it
into stone, and roots it in place.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Prophecy recognized and sacrifice ordered
summary: The Phaeacians wonder at the rooted ship; Alcinous recalls his father's
prophecy, orders an end to escorts, and commands sacrifice and prayer to Neptune.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:3
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Ulysses wakes under Minerva's fog
summary: Ulysses wakes on his own soil but does not recognize it because of long
absence and Minerva's fog; the landscape appears changed and he laments.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:7
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Counting treasure and meeting the disguised goddess
summary: Ulysses counts his goods, finds none missing, grieves by the shore, and
sees Minerva approach disguised as a young shepherd.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: homecoming in sleep and nonrecognition
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: Ulysses is transported home while asleep, wakes on his own soil, and fails
to recognize his native land because of long absence and divine fog.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage covers only the initial return and nonrecognition, not the
later full recognition or reintegration.
- id: motif:2
label: divine punishment of helpers for aiding a hero
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Neptune punishes the Phaeacians for escorting Ulysses safely home by turning
their returning ship to stone, after consultation with Jove.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The threatened burial of the city is proposed and feared in this passage;
the passage explicitly describes the petrification of the ship.
- id: motif:3
label: prophecy fulfilled by divine retribution
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Alcinous states that his father's old prophecy about Neptune's anger and
a wrecked Phaeacian ship is now coming true.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The prophecy is reported in retrospect by Alcinous, not narrated at the
time it was originally spoken.
- id: motif:4
label: sacrifice to avert divine wrath
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: Alcinous orders twelve picked bulls sacrificed to Neptune so that he may
show mercy and not bury the city under the mountain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage includes preparation, prayer, and altar imagery, but does
not narrate the completed killing of the bulls in detail.
- id: motif:5
label: goddess concealed helper in disguise
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: Minerva makes a fog to conceal Ulysses' arrival and then approaches him disguised
as a young shepherd.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage identifies the disguise but does not yet include the ensuing
conversation.
- id: motif:6
label: threat of city burial under mountain
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Neptune asks to bury the Phaeacian city under a huge mountain, Jove allows
it, and Alcinous fears the high mountain named in prophecy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: Within this passage the mountain burial remains a threat and prophetic
fear rather than a narrated completed event.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 5819-5828
quote_or_summary: The Phaeacians land the sleeping Ulysses with his bedding, place
his gifts by the root of an olive tree away from the road, and depart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 5830-5845
quote_or_summary: Neptune tells Jove that the Phaeacians have disrespected him by
bringing Ulysses home asleep and with abundant gifts, though he had allowed Ulysses
to return after suffering.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 5847-5866
quote_or_summary: Jove says Neptune may deal with disrespectful mortals; Neptune
asks to wreck the returning ship and bury the city under a mountain; Jove recommends
turning the ship into a rock near shore while people watch.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 5868-5873
quote_or_summary: Neptune goes to Scheria, meets the rapidly approaching ship, turns
it into stone, and drives it down with his hand so it is rooted in the ground.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 5875-5891
quote_or_summary: The Phaeacians wonder who rooted the ship in the sea; Alcinous
recalls his father's prophecy of Neptune's anger, a wrecked escort ship, and a
city buried under a mountain, then orders an end to escorts and sacrifice of twelve
bulls; the people fear and pray at Neptune's altar.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 5893-5904
quote_or_summary: Ulysses wakes on his own soil but does not know it; Minerva has
made a foggy day to conceal his arrival and instruct him before recognition and
revenge; the landscape appears changed to him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 5905-5915
quote_or_summary: Ulysses laments, wonders what people he has come among, worries
about his treasure, accuses the Phaeacians of leaving him in the wrong country,
and invokes Jove against wrongdoers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 5916-5919
quote_or_summary: Ulysses counts his coppers, cauldrons, gold, and clothes and finds
nothing missing; while grieving by the shore, he sees Minerva approaching in the
guise of a young shepherd with cloak, sandals, and javelin.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/odyssey-butler.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels use the provided
taxonomy where directly supported; no external comparison claims are made.
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'
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