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Telemachus and Peisistratus visit the king of Sparta in hopes of receiving word of Odysseus The king's name is?
Menelaus - Husband to Queen Helen of Troy.
What was the oath of Tyndareus in Greek Mythology?
Tyndareus is the father of Helen of Troy. In order to not be negatively effected when he picked Helen's husband, he took the advice of Odysseus to make all of the suitors to pledge to come in defense of whoever married Helen if something happens to her.
Who was Helen of troy husband?
Helen's first husband was Menelaus (Menelaos - pronounced "meh-neh-LAH-ohs"), king of Sparta. With the help of Aphrodite, she was spirited away by Paris, Prince of Troy and wed to him under their laws.
What was Odysseus' role in the Trojan war?
He was one if Helen's old suitors, all of which has sworn an oath to back Helen's husband to defend her honour, so when Paris abducted Helen he was forced to fight in the war. Odysseus led the armies of Ithaca in a pact to retrieve the kidnapped wife of Menelaus (Helen) back from the Trojan prince Paris. Odysseus is the iconic bronze-age Greek hero. Although physically shorter in stature than some of the other prominent heroes of the Trojan War, he was broadly-built and extremely crafty. It is this characteristic of cunning which is Odysseus' hallmark. The ruse of the Trojan Horse was the product of Odysseus' skillful imagination.
Who never married Helen in the Odysseus?
In the "Odyssey," Helen was the wife of Menelaus, not Odysseus. Odysseus was married to Penelope, who remained faithful to him during his long journey back from the Trojan War.
Who was Helen of Troy's husband was it Agamemnon?
No, Helen's husband was Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon.
Why did Odysseus go to the Trojan war?
Helen was one of the most beautiful women in the world and had many suitors. When she chose to marry Menalaus, her father asked all the other suitors (including Odysseus) to support the marriage rights of her choice. The story goes that, after some years of marriage, Helen ended up in Troy. At that time, Menelaus asked Odysseus and the other suitors to help him bring Helen back from Troy. After the war was won, Helen and Menelaus reunited.
What story does Queen Helen tell Telemachus?
Queen Helen tells Telemachus about her time with Odysseus during the Trojan War, mentioning how she was able to deceive the Greek soldiers with her cunning skills. She also talks about Odysseus' intelligence and the strategies he used to help win the war.
Who was Penelope's husband?
Odysseus
Who was helens first husband?
Helen's first husband was Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Helen's abduction by Paris of Troy was the catalyst for the Trojan War.
Are Menelaus and Penelope brother and sister in the odyssey?
No, Menelaus is the son of Pleisthenes and Aerope - or Atreus and Cleola. Penelope the wife of Odysseus was the daughter of Icarius who was brother to Tyndareus the husband of Leda, who was mother of Helen.
Why did the envoys from Helen of troy's husband call the men of Greece?
Helen had many suitors among the kings of Bronze Age Greece, including Odysseus and Agamemnon. In the end, she chose Menelaus, bu all of the others were made to swear an oath that if Helen were to come to harm, they would do anything to save her. This was to prevent one of them from attacking Sparta and taking Helen as their own (at the risk of initiating war with all the others). Of course, Priam and his sons were not a part of this arrangement. So, when Helen was abducted/ran away, he called on the other Achaean kings to fulfill their oaths. ----- It started with the Oath of Tyndareus: a idea of Odysseus, where all the suitors of Helen would vow to defend the chosen husband from any quarrel, that husband was Menelaus - chosen either by Tyndareus, or by Helen: now the brother of Menelaus was Agamemnon King of Mycenae or Argos (Helen's sister Clytemnestra; was his wife). When Paris took Helen from Sparta to Troy, Menelaus called upon all the suitors and their resources from that vow to go to war with Troy.
