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Those plays which lack agons are all romantic tragedies with happy endings (Helen, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion) which belong to a class by themselves in Euripides' oeuvre. The fact that one tragedy that has been handed as a work by Euripides, Rhesus, does not have an agon is by itself
a compelling argument that it is not from Euripides' hand—there are also other arguments against Euripidean authorship for this play—rather, Rhesus is more likely
a later playwright's work that happened to have the same title as one by Euripides
and, because of that, was confused with his play and mistakenly assigned to him.
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