This is a play by Euripides. It is in GB Volume 5. The newsletter post is here.
Rhesus
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- How does Euripides portray the theme of fate versus free will in the characters’ actions and decisions throughout “Rhesus”?
- What role does the concept of loyalty play in the relationships among the characters, particularly in the context of war and betrayal?
- In what ways does Euripides use symbolism and imagery to enhance the emotional impact of the narrative, particularly in relation to the character of Rhesus?
People in the play
- Chorus of Trojan Sentinels, Hector, Aeneas, Dolon, Messenger, a shepherd, Rhesus, Odysseus, Diomedes, Paris, Athena, The Muse, The Charioteer of Rhesus
Highlights
- I for my country will gladly run this risk and go to spy the Argive fleet, and when I have learnt fully all that the Achaeans plot I will return. (View Highlight)
- among mortals the same man is not dowered by nature with universal knowledge (View Highlight)
- Of gold was the yoke that linked the necks of his steeds whiter than the snow; and on his shoulders (View Highlight)
- steeds whiter than the snow; and on his shoulders flashed his targe with figures welded in gold ; (View Highlight)
- and on the morrow home from Ilium will I go, at one stroke ending all thy toil. (View Highlight)
- No brave man deigns to smite his foe in secret, but to meet him face to face. (View Highlight)
- If he survive this night until to-morrow’s dawn, neither Achilles nor Aias, stout spearman, can stay him from utterly destroying the Argive fleet, razing its palisades and carrying the on- slaught of his lance far and wide within the gates; slay him, and all is thine; (View Highlight)
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- Thou canst not o’erreach Destiny. (View Highlight)
- to die with glory, if die one must, is bitterness enough (View Highlight)