Menelaus Essays

in the world, she was also married to King Menelaus of Sparta. On the tenth day when the Troy visited Sparta to make peace, Helen runs away secretly with Prince Paris of Troy, resulting in the Trojan War. Legend has is that Helen was under Aphrodite spell to fall in love with Prince Paris of Troy which resulted in having the Trojan War. Helen was set to be the most beautiful women in the world, and she was the Queen of Sparta. Her husband King Menelaus was more involved with his brother Agamemnon

Menelaus 's brother happened to be Agamemnon, who was the most powerful king amongst the Greeks. Menelaus and Agamemnon visited all of the Greek Chieftains and persuaded them to join them in a colossal expedition which they were preparing to take down Troy, Agamemnon had been chosen as commander-in-chief; next to him were the most important Greek heroes, his brother Menelaus, Patroclus, and Achilles. Two unrelated men named Ajax, Nestor and his son Antilochus, Teucer, Idomeneus, Diomedes, Odysseus

Odyssey to show the importance of home. Xenia is the greek term for “hospitality towards visitors”. This Greek term is shown when Telemachus and Peisistratus both began on their journey on a yoke. “And they drove to Menelaus’ palace,/Which they found filled with guests” (Lombardo 44). Menelaus has many guests in his palace because of Xenia which is valued in their society. They believe in Xenia because when people are away from home, they are uncomfortable so showing hospitality towards visitors makes

to win the war. It was called the Trojan Horse. The war started when Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, kidnapped Helen, Queen of Sparta, from her kingdom and took her back to Troy. Helen’s husband, Menelaus, was outraged and went to help Agamemnon assemble a huge army. Agamemnon and Menelaus gathered the Greek army and attempted to lay siege on the city of Troy but failed. Then Ulysses, the most cunning of the Greeks, devised the a plan to capture Troy. It would involve a famously clever trick

ago that in a fight between a husband and a wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.” Helen was the most beautiful woman in the entire Greek known world. She was the daughter of Zeus and the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Meanwhile in Troy, Paris was given a golden apple to choose which of the 3 goddesses: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite were the fairest of them all. Paris gave Aphrodite the golden apple after promising him the most beautiful wife, Helen

explaining the situation that she and her brother are in along with the fact that their uncle Menelaus has come back with his wife, Helen, who is the cause of all the strife that her family has been going through. The reader then learns that Orestes and Elektra are awaiting whether or not they will be stoned for their actions against their mother and her lover. She goes on to explain that she hopes that Menelaus can help them because

Helen left her Greek husband Menelaus for Paris the prince of troy. Helen is a gold digger because Paris was a beautiful wealthy guy and the prince of troy. Menelaus was furious and got his brother and soldiers to fight against troy to get Helen back. Some thoughts on what the book seems to suggest she is thinking is she feels bad because she started a whole war with the trojans and greeks. Towards the end of the book Helen realizes she’s still in love with Menelaus. Helen started a war to realize

capturing Aethra instead. Later, a number of suitors tried to win her hand, eventually Menelaus being the victor. All suitors, though, were bound by an oath to assist, in case Helen would be abducted in the future. Her marriage to Menelaus, king of Sparta, saw her ascend to the throne of the city as a queen. They had a daughter, Hermione, and three sons, Aethiolas, Maraphius and Pleisthenes. The marriage of Helen and Menelaus marked the beginning of the end for the age of heroes, which was Zeus' decision

innocence to Menelaus, the chorus responds “My queen, protect your children and your homeland from the insidious bewitchment of her words - It’s terrible how well the guilty one can speak” (lines 967-969). This not only captures and illustrates the response to Helen’s speech of the other women in the camp, but also provides a smooth transition to Hecuba’s response. Furthermore, immediately after Hecuba’s response, they actively echo Hecuba’s advice to give Helen justice, and that Menelaus would earn

literature written centuries apart, yet they share parallels in how a female character in each is expressed on the surface, and upon delving deeper, some difference also become apparent between two female characters. In The Iliad, Helen, wife to King Menelaus, is similar to Sarah, wife to Abraham, in The Bible. Both women are dangerously beautiful, regret their actions that lead them to where they are, and are perceived as conniving. They possess the power to alter events in the narrative despite not

hadn’t been returned to Menelaus, and the Emperor of troy could’ve easily burned down this wooden horse, killing the men inside and possibly giving the trojans the win. However,

women. Each of these women have had men compete to be their husbands, through wars and competitions. The men “launch(ed)...headlong battles just for (Helen’s) sake,” (129: 161-162) and not for her protection or happiness, but because both King Menelaus and Paris wanted her to be their wife. The Trojan War originated when Aphrodite promised Paris the most beautiful woman, if he said that she was the most beautiful of three goddesses. Paris took Helen as his ‘prize’ despite the fact that she

marriage, Hamilton states, “ Then Tyndareus chose Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, and made him King of Sparta as well” (Hamilton 259). Hamiliton established that “Tyndareus chose Menelaus,” which means that her marriage was arranged and that she got no say in who would be her future husband. This therefore indicates that they were wed for political reasons and that she didn’t really love him. So, this proves that Helen wasn’t 100% devoted to Menelaus and thus, when she met Paris, she had no problem

lookout for the signal indicating the fall of Troy to the Greeks. The chorus then enters and begins to tell us how the Trojan Prince, Paris, stole Helen the wife of Menelaus which then caused a ten year war. The Queen then appears letting the Chorus aware of the falling of Troy and orders sacrifices. There is a terrible storm which causes Menelaus, King Agamemnon, and many others missing. Then a guy Calchas claims it's the work of one of the gods and the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter was necessary to

world. The abduction of Helen, began the Trojan war. Paris then stole Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. The theft, abduction , and rape of Helen is what led to the Trojan War. Athena and Hera decided to help the Greeks get Helen back. The Greeks had a greater advantage now that Athena was helping them, because she’s the goddess of war. The story of the Odysseus and plow : Odysseus found out that Menelaus was going to go get him so he can help fight the

you his wife- or even his slave. I’m not going back there. It would be treason to share his bed. The Trojan women, would hold me at fault. I have enough pain it is” (III, 430-440). Helen tells Aphrodite that she regrets leaving her marriage with Menelaus for Paris and no longer wants to share a bed with him. By Helen protesting her marriage bed who she shares with Paris she is refusing to enter into the submissive female stereotypes and beginning to use her voice. The bed she shares with Paris to

because Menelaus finds out and he isn’t too happy. So, like any man would do in this type of situation, he goes to his brother and tells him what happened. His brother happens to be Agamemnon, and they do what any normal person would do: declare war on the city where the person who took Helen lives. In the film, Agamemnon, Helen, Paris, all exist, and the background of Paris stealing Helen away is incorporated in the film. However, it is incorporated differently, as no Gods are in the film, and

simplistic as the alphabet. A love affair caused hundreds of deaths and years of rage between two sides. In the Greek mythological world, the War of Troy was a long, brutal war between the Greeks and the Trojans because of Helen, who was the wife of King Menelaus of the Spartans. In a quick turn of events, Helen had fallen in love with Paris, and the lovers fled to Troy. After the 10 year war, Troy had been burned to its knees and all of the residents with it, and Helen was stuck with only two options. The

The Trojan War plays a prominent part in Greek mythology. In classical sources the war began after the either elopement or abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta to/by the Trojan Prince Paris. Menelaus, the king of Sparta, convinced his brother Agamemnon (who was king of Mycenae) to head an “expedition” to retrieve his queen. The Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax and Nestor joined Agamemnon and his fleet of a thousand ships. The unit of soldiers, heroes and men were from multiple parts of the Hellenic

Rather than stand and fight against Menelaus, he runs and buries himself in the Trojan army. The nobility that he has is overcome by his fear of death from Menelaus and his emotional response to run overtakes him. Hector similarly faces a similar moment of cowardliness. In Book Twenty-Two, Hector faces off with Achilles and sees him approaching closer: