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Often appears with: prayer and worship · military discipline and training · diplomacy and embassies · battle and tactics · will, choice, and freedom · venus and cupid · transfer of artemis image · thoas roundup order · the passions and the emotions · the nature and attributes of God · terrain and surprise in battle · temples, shrines, and sacred places
Usually: narrative (5) · detachment (4) · reverence (4) · wonder (3) · argument (2) · confronting death (2) · crisis of belief (2) · exhortation (2) · speech or oration (1) · ambition and its cost (1)
“Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart—which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.” Homer, The Iliad · insight
“Accordingly thou, my son, wilt now die, not in any common way of going out of the world, but sent to God, the Father of all men, beforehand, by thy own father, in the nature of a sacrifice.” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · precept
“Wherever they visited they found their patients better; either they had sweated kindly, or the tumours were broke, or the carbuncles went down and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or the violent headache was assuaged, or some good symptom was in the case; so that in a few days everybody was recovering, whole families that were infected and down, that had ministers praying with them, and expected death every hour, were revived and healed, and none died at all out of them.” Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year · vivid
“Nor was this by any new medicine found out, or new method of cure discovered, or by any experience in the operation which the physicians or surgeons attained to; but it was evidently from the secret invisible hand of Him that had at first sent this disease as a judgement upon us; and let the atheistic part of mankind call my saying what they please, it is no enthusiasm; it was acknowledged at that time by all mankind.” Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year · insight
“But the impression was so strong at that time that it could not be resisted; no, not by the worst of the people.” Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year · observation
Odysseus waits in the vestibule, plotting whether to kill the wooers, until Athena appears disguised as a woman, reassures him, and sends him to sleep so the battle will proceed later.
Pallas and Odysseus consult of the killing of the wooers. But the goodly Odysseus laid him down to sleep in the vestibule of the house. He spread an undressed bull’s hide on the ground and above it many fleeces of sheep, that the Achaeans were wont to slay in sacrifice, and Eurynome threw a mantle over him where he lay. There Odysseus lay wakeful, with evil thoughts against the wooers in his heart. And the women cam…
Dido recounts her connection to Teucer and Cypriot history, offers Aeneas a feast and sacrifices, sends help to ships for his son Iulus, and is deceived by Venus’s plan to send Cupid disguised as Ascanius.
“What fate, O goddess-born; what angry pow’rs Have cast you shipwreck’d on our barren shores? Are you the great Aeneas, known to fame, Who from celestial seed your lineage claim? The same Aeneas whom fair Venus bore To fam’d Anchises on th’ Idaean shore? It calls into my mind, tho’ then a child, When Teucer came, from Salamis exil’d, And sought my father’s aid, to be restor’d: My father…
Turnus sets an ambush in a narrow valley pass to counter Aeneas’s approach, while the goddess Phoebe/Latonian Phoebe watches and calls Opis to aid Camilla’s doomed campaign against her enemies.
This said, he warns Messapus to the war, Then ev’ry chief exhorts with equal care. All thus encourag’d, his own troops he joins, And hastes to prosecute his deep designs. Inclos’d with hills, a winding valley lies, By nature form’d for fraud, and fitted for surprise. A narrow track, by human steps untrode, Leads, thro’ perplexing thorns, to this obscure abode. High o’er the vale a steepy moun…
Defoe describes London plague’s sudden easing after about three weeks, with patients recovering without new medical methods, attributing the outcome to God’s direct intervention and urging thankful reflection.
three weeks I speak of; for the number that sickened was surprising, indeed it was astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank under it now. In the middle of their distress, when the condition of the city of London was so truly calamitous, just then it pleased God—as it were by His immediate hand to disarm this enemy; the poison was taken out of the sting. It was wond…
Achilles laments that he can’t save Patroclus and feels like a useless burden, decides to pursue Hector, and Thetis urges him not to rejoin the battle until she returns with forged armor.
Thetis wept and answered, “Then, my son, is your end near at hand—for your own death awaits you full soon after that of Hector.” Then said Achilles in his great grief, “I would die here and now, in that I could not save my comrade. He has fallen far from home, and in his hour of need my hand was not there to help him. What is there for me? Return to my own land I shall not, and I have brought…
Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac, dedicating him to God; Abraham prophesies Isaac will live and later aid him, while God intervenes to prevent Isaac’s death and promise enduring blessings to their line.
what they already have, when they put too much trust therein; that therefore, if God pleased to be present and propitious at this sacrifice, he would provide himself an oblation." 3. As soon as the altar was prepared, and Abraham had laid on the wood, and all things were entirely ready, he said to his son, "O son, I poured out a vast number of prayers that I might have thee for my son; when thou wast come into the w…
As Thoas orders a violent roundup and plans to seize the wrecked escapees, Athena appears above and commands him to stop; she lays out the divine plan for Orestes to take the image to Athens.
sea, the ladder at the side Was caught, and there amid the benches stood The maid of Argos and the carven wood Of heaven, the image of God's daughter high. And up from the mid galley rose a cry: "For Greece! For Greece, O children of the shores Of storm! Give way, and let her feel your oars; Churn the long waves to foam. The prize is won. The prize we followed, on and ever on, Friendless beyond the blue Symplegades.…
The speaker urges someone to follow her instructions and thank a divine power for elevating them from simplicity and granting access to the goddess’s pleasures and gifts.
Therefore, be thou of our following, and return thanks to our beauty, which thou hast so closely examined. But return special thanks to our deity, which has sundered thee from the ranks of the simple, and persuaded thee to become acquainted with the delights that our gifts bestow."