SINON IN ROMAN DRAMA

This article investigates the probable sources of the version of the Sinon myth found in Plautus' Bacchides 938, where Sinon hides in busto Achilli. The Vatican Epitome of Pseudo-Apollodorus knows this version of the story, but Plautus seems to have followed a different source. He borrowed the motif not from a Greek play or poem, but from Roman tragedy, probably the Equos Troianus of Naevius, who in turn got it from a post-classical Greek drama.