Menelaus

Greek mythology · king · wronged kingship, persistence

King of Sparta and Helen's husband, for whose sake the hundred kings sailed. He survived the war, wandered seven years, took Helen home, and, as Zeus's son-in-law, was promised the Isles of the Blessed instead of death.

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The Fall of Troy

After ten years of siege, Odysseus conceives the wooden horse and Troy drags its own doom through the gates. The city burns: Priam is cut down at his altar, Cassandra's warnings are vindicated too late, Menelaus reclaims Helen, and Aeneas escapes the flames carrying his father on his back.