Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Talthybius.
The gallery
Eurybates and Talthybius Lead Briseis to Agamemnon
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1757–1758
Tiepolo's Iliad scene: Talthybius among the heralds who take Briseis from Achilles — Agamemnon's voice made flesh in Venetian fresco.
On screen
In play
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The Trojan Women
Euripides
Euripides' herald — Talthybius carries Astyanax's sentence and Cassandra's allotment, pitying the women he must wound.
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Hecuba
Euripides
Again Euripides' messenger of doom — Talthybius between Greek command and Trojan grief.
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Talthybius
Agamemnon's herald — the Iliad's runner and Euripides' reluctant bearer of bad news.