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Rhesus

Author
Euripides
Series
Plays by Euripides
Language
English
Length
52 pages
ISBN
9781911144083
Published
15 October 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Rhesus
  • Euripides
  • Greek
  • tragedy
  • play
  • Greece
  • drama
  • mythology
  • history

Description

In the middle of the night Trojan guards on the lookout for suspicious enemy activity sight bright fires in the Greek camp. They promptly inform Hector, who almost issues a general call to arms before Aeneas makes him see how ill-advised this would be. Their best bet, Aeneas argues, would be to send someone to spy on the Greek camp and see what the enemy is up to. Dolon volunteers to spy on the Greeks in exchange for Achilles's horses when the war is won. Hector accepts the deal and sends him out.

Author

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived. Many fragments (some of them substantial) survive from most of his other plays.