Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

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

Aliases

1

Hyperion

Alternative name · Simile

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
Oceanus2 observations
·Direct

The Sun sinks physically into Oceanus at nightfall.

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“The sun’s glorious orb now sank into Oceanus”
·Direct

The sun is sent into and sets in the waters of Oceanus.

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“Juno sent the busy sun, loth though he was, into the waters of Oceanus; so he set”

Claims

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·Reported

Agamemnon invokes the Sun as seeing and hearing all things.

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“thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things”
·Direct

The newly risen sun beats on the fields after ascending into heaven from the slow, still currents of deep Oceanus.

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“The sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh risen into the vault of heaven from the slow still currents of deep Oceanus”
·Hypothetical

Jove says even the sun’s bright piercing beams will not penetrate his dense golden cloud.

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“the very sun for all his bright piercing beams shall not see through it.”
·Direct

The reluctant Sun is sent into Oceanus and sets.

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“the busy sun, loth though he was, into the waters of Oceanus; so he set”
·Direct

The Sun is represented on the shield as untiring.

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“the untiring sun”
·Reported

Agamemnon invokes Sun as a witness to his oath.

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“I call also Earth and Sun”
·Simile

Armoured Achilles’s radiance is compared to the sun-god Hyperion.

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“resplendent as the sun-god Hyperion”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Direct
“for Earth and Sun”
·Hypothetical
“the very sun for all his bright piercing beams shall not see through it”
·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.’