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Nonnus' great epic poem contains many epigrams that are presented as written on somebody's tomb or invented as an epitaph by a dying man, his killer, or another mythical personage. The epitaphs stand out of the poem and usually have most of the elements typical of their genre.
The prologue of Euripides' Hecuba is delivered by the ghost of Polydorus, one of the sons of Hecuba and Priam. Polydorus tells the spectators about his own fate and mentions the earlier apparition of the spirit of Achilles, who demanded that the Greeks sacrifice the captive Polyxena to him. The present article centres on the questions of why Euripides introduced the ghost of Polydorus on stage and...
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