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Danaans

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Danaans
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

1

Argive Danaans

Descriptive reference · Reported

Location presence

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0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

4
·Reported

Phemius sings of the Danaans’ ill-fated return.

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This fellow means no harm by singing the ill-fated return of the Danaans
·Remembered

Ulysses calls the Danaans who fell before Troy in the sons of Atreus’s cause blessed and thrice blessed.

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Blest and thrice blest were those Danaans who fell before Troy in the cause of the sons of Atreus
·Reported

Demodocus sings that Jove’s evil falls upon the Danaans after the chieftains’ quarrel.

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Here was the beginning of the evil that by the will of Jove fell both upon Danaans and Trojans
·Remembered

The Danaans tore their hair and wept bitterly around Achilles’s body.

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The Danaans tore their hair and wept bitterly round about you

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

5
·Reported
the ill-fated return of the Danaans
·Remembered
those Danaans who fell before Troy
·Reported
fell both upon Danaans and Trojans
·Remembered
all the Danaans after the son of Peleus
·Direct
all the Danaans

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 25

‘Mother,’ answered Telemachus, ‘let the bard sing what he has a mind to; bards do not make the ills they sing of; it is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure. This fellow means no harm by singing the ill-fated return of the Danaans, for people always applaud the latest songs most warmly. Make up your mind to it and bear it; Ulysses is not the only man who never came back from Troy, but many another went down as well as he. Go, then, within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants; for speech is man’s matter, and mine above all others {10}—for it is I who am master here.’