Aeneas (Troilus and Cressida)

Play

Troilus and Cressida

Summary

A senior Trojan lord who serves primarily as an ambassador and herald, carrying Hector's challenge to the Greek camp and conducting diplomatic business between the two sides. His courtly manner contrasts with the bluntness of some of the Greeks, and his role in conveying the news that Cressida is to be exchanged sets the play's central romantic catastrophe in motion.

Notable Quotations

"Now, princes, for the service I have done you, / The advantage of the time prompts me aloud / To call for recompense." *(IV.ii)*

Cross-references

• Troilus and Cressida — the play
• Tragedies
• character_hector — whose challenge he delivers to the Greeks
• character_troilus — his fellow Trojan prince
• character_agamemnon — the Greek commander he treats with