CLAS 353
Quiz #4
October 3, 2024

What does Maeon (the lone survivor of Tydeus’s massacre of the Theban assassins) do when he appears before Eteocles in Thebes at the beginning of Thebaid 3? What does the narrator think of Maeon's choice to do this? Explain how Maeon here appears to be a case of a minor or marginal character being presented as heroic in Statius's grim epic.