A skeuophoros (Greek: Σκευοφόρος "Βaggage carrier") was a slave or servant who carried baggage in ancient Greece.
Herodotus records that every hoplite was followed on campaign by a servant as a skeuophoros.
[1] In Aristophanes' play The Frogs, Xanthias, the slave of Dionysus, acts as his skeuophoros:[2] Διόνυσος ἴθι νυν ἐπειδὴ ληματίας κἀνδρεῖος εἶ,σὺ μὲν γενοῦ 'γὼ τὸ ῥόπαλον τουτὶ λαβὼνκαὶ τὴν λεοντῆν, εἴπερ ἀφοβόσπλαγχνος εἶ:ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἔσομαί σοι σκευοφόρος ἐν τῷ μέρει.
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