Two youths who die in one of these events have their heads paraded on spears the next day.
Before performing this type of action, two characters hear, but fail to see, Athena's auspicious omen of a screeching heron. Two youths who die in one of these events have their heads paraded on spears the next day. A character performing this type of task unwittingly runs past two men pretending to be corpses. One of these events goes awry when enemy forces notice the distant gleam of a helmet taken from a dead soldier. A sleepless Agamemnon and Menelaus rouse Nestor in order to find warriors to perform this type of task following the embassy to Achilles. In Book IX of the Aeneid, the lovers (*) Euryalus and Nisus die in one of these events. In Book X of the Iliad, the scout Dolon reveals the location of the horses of Rhesus after he is captured during one of these operations carried out by Diomedes and Odysseus. For 10 points, identify this type of military operation in which warriors sneak into enemy territory in order to gain intelligence or resources.
Before performing this type of action, two characters hear, but fail to see, Athena's auspicious omen of a screeching heron.
night raid [or espionage; or intelligence; or infiltration; or Doloneia before "Dolon" is read; or obvious equivalents; or any descriptive answer in which warriors sneak into enemy territory in order to gain intelligence or resources] 