Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Deity · Individual

Discord

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Discord
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Explicitly called the only god present among the armies.

Aliases

1

fierce Discord

Epithet · Direct

Location presence

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0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Direct

Discord raises a loud, shrill cry that fills the Achaeans with courage to stay and fight with all their might.

See evidence text
“There she took her stand, and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage, giving them heart to fight resolutely and with all their might, so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships”
·Direct

Discord rejoices at battle and is the only god moving among the armies.

See evidence text
“Discord was glad as she beheld them, for she was the only god that went among them;”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“Jove sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands”
·Direct
“Discord was glad as she beheld them, for she was the only god that went among them”

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 1

AND now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans. She took her stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses’ ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles—for these two heroes, well-assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line. There she took her stand, and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage, giving them heart to fight resolutely and with all their might, so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships.