Dolon

Family: Troy · Role: Trojan spy · First appears: Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 1

Life events

• Dolon undertakes to spy on the Greek fleet and return after learning the enemy’s plans.(Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 1 · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Hector
  • “For my native realm, Facing this danger, to the fleet of Greece I as a spy will go; and when I’ve searched Into the progress of our foes, return”
• Hector offers Dolon marriage to an imperial Trojan daughter, but Dolon refuses the proposed match.(Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 1 · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Hector
  • “To thee a daughter of imperial Priam In marriage shall be given. DOL. With my superiors I will not wed.”
• Dolon disguises himself in a wolf’s hide and departs to infiltrate the Grecian fleet.(Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 2 · 📍 Argive fleet)
  • “I to my back will fit the tawny hide Of a slain wolf, will muffle up my front With the beast’s hairy visage”
• Dolon vows to kill Odysseus and return to Troy with his severed head.(Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 2)
  • With: Odysseus
  • “And having slain Ulysses, or the son Of Tydeus, bring to you their ghastly heads”

Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 1

• with Hector (Hector assigns Dolon the mission of spying on the Greek fleet.) “I will send a spy Among the Greeks; and if we learn what schemes They have devised, the whole of my intentions To thee will I immediately reveal”
• enemies with Menelaus “Slay them; I seek not to withhold your arm From cutting off the vanquished Menelaus.”

Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 2

• with Hector (Dolon undertakes a mission for Hector's benefit and in expectation of Hector's reward.) “Such as no Phrygian ever won before: Nor should you envy me, for joys unnumbered And the first station in the realm, are yours.”
• enemies with Odysseus “And having slain Ulysses, or the son Of Tydeus, bring to you their ghastly heads:”
• enemies with Menelaus “In savage guise now Dolon stalks arrayed, With step adventurous o’er the hostile ground: What Grecian chief shall feel the deadly wound, While the wolf’s hide conceals his glittering blade? Weltering first in crimson gore, May Menelaus rise no more;”
• enemies with Agamemnon “Next may the victor, Agamemnon’s head Bear to Helen, stung with grief”

Euripides, Rhesus — Scene 4

• employer: Hector (Hector has sent Dolon on a spying mission.) “Dolon our spy, who sallied forth t’ explore The navy of our foes; if he be safe He, by this time, the trenches must approach.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.