Epeus

Family: Greeks · Role: Phocian chief · First appears: Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 1

Life events

• The Greeks sack Troy, and Priam is killed after Epeus sends the Trojan Horse through the gates.(Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 1 · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Poseidon Apollo Athena Priam
  • “Framed with a skilful hand, and through the gates Sent that accursed machine, the horse which teemed With ambushed javelins. Through forsaken groves, Through the polluted temples of the gods, Flow tides of crimson slaughter; at the base Of altars sacred to Hercæan Jove, Fell hoary Priam.”

Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 1

• with Athena (Athena’s arts inspired Epeus in constructing the Trojan Horse.) “The Phocian chief Epeus, by Minerva’s arts inspired, Framed with a skilful hand, and through the gates Sent that accursed machine, the horse which teemed With ambushed javelins.”

Also listed in Greeks — Minor Figures

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