A skeuophoros 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. In Aristophanes' play The Frogs, Xanthias, the slave of Dionysus, acts as his skeuophoros: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.