Details of this communication by signal fire via Mt. Parnassus is suggestive of Clytemnestra’s arrangements to be informed of Troy’s fall within hours of its occurrence described in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon. Where, however, in Aeschylus the woman’s capacity to effect such a difficult undertaking stretches the credibility of ordinary men, here the achievement is ascribed directly to divine powers helped only at the last by the priestess of Apollo and her staff. [Mp] [Apcma]