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Often appears with: transfer of artemis image · plan for athens · divine intervention · divination and oracles · diplomacy and embassies · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1)
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.…