Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Earth
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Reported

Agamemnon invokes Earth alongside the Rivers and the underworld punishers of broken oaths.

See evidence text
“Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath”
·Reported

Agamemnon invokes Earth as a witness to his oath.

See evidence text
“I call also Earth and Sun”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

4
·Direct
“for Earth and Sun”
·Direct
“the earth sprouted them a cushion of young grass”
·Direct
“earth below be my witnesses”
·Direct
“I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 9

Thus he spoke, and they all held their peace, till Menelaus of the loud battle-cry addressed them. ‘And now,’ he said, ‘hear me too, for it is I who am the most aggrieved. I deem that the parting of Achaeans and Trojans is at hand, as well it may be, seeing how much have suffered for my quarrel with Alexandrus and the wrong he did me. Let him who shall die, die, and let the others fight no more. Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove. Moreover, you shall bid Priam come, that he may swear to the covenant himself; for his sons are high-handed and ill to trust, and the oaths of Jove must not be transgressed or taken in vain. Young men’s minds are light as air, but when an old man comes he looks before and after, deeming that which shall be fairest upon both sides.’