Entity
Potiphar’s Wife Motif
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A comparative label for a woman’s rejected overture followed by a false accusation; it does not give every version a biblical origin.
Text
The sequence appears in the Two Brothers tale, Genesis 39 and the IliadIliadGreek epic attributed to Homer, narrating a phase of the Trojan War.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s Bellerophon episode, with different ranks, media and consequences. Its biblical label aids comparison but proves neither that all texts derive from Genesis 39 nor a single transmission route. [3][4][6][12]
References and notes
- Translation, introduction and notes, pp. 203–211, read in extracted PDF text; hieratic original not read and some OCR is damaged. Miriam Lichtheim, “The Two Brothers,” Ancient Egyptian Literature II, pp. 203–211 Return to the text ↑
- All of Genesis 39:1–23 read in Hebrew and facing translation, especially 6–20. Genesis 39:1–23, vocalized Hebrew and facing English Return to the text ↑
- Iliad 6:156–190 read in Murray’s English; Greek original and rest of the epic not read. Iliad 6:156–190, A. T. Murray English translation, Scaife ATLAS Return to the text ↑
- University publication entry and abstract read, not the full paper. Maleki, Nazemi and Laguna Mariscal, “The scheme of Potiphar’s wife” (2020), university abstract Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Potiphar’s Wife Motif», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/potiphars-wife-motif