Second Messenger
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Messenger · a slave
in the texts
Birds
The second messenger of this window, who breathlessly reports that an unidentified winged god has breached the aerial blockade, precipitating the confrontation with Iris.
they cleave the air so that it resounds with the flapping of their wings;
Second Messenger:
Second Messenger:
Bacchae
An unnamed servant of Pentheus who witnessed the events on Kithairon and reports Pentheus's death to the Chorus.
Some aimed with pine branches and other women hurled their thyrsoi through the air at Pentheus, a sad target indeed.
He sat Pentheus down on the pine branch, and let it go upright through his hands steadily, taking care not to shake him off.
Pentheus fell crashing to the ground from his lofty seat, wailing greatly:
Helen
An unnamed servant who witnessed the escape from the harbor and reports it to Theoklymenos in a long messenger speech.
for I never expected that a single hand could excel over so many sailors, with whom you were sent.
And Menelaos stroked the horse on neck and brow, coaxing it to go aboard.
But Menelaos, in full armor, wherever he spied that his comrades were suffering, would go there, sword in hand;