2007-12-11 03:14:48 · 16 answers · asked by thor 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Menelaus rescued her and returned home where they probably didn't live happily ever after ;o)
2007-12-11 03:27:36 · answer #1 · answered by Plocket 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Menelaus tried to slay her with his sword for being unfaithful but when he raised his sword to do so, she dropped her robe from her shoulders. Infatuated by her beauty once again, he lets her live as his wife. She went back to Menelaus and lived a peaceful life. Then, when Telemacchus comes to ask of advice to Menelaus and Helen to Sparta, she is depicted of describing her knowledge of that matter; because Menelaus was so happy he forgot to thank the Gods so he had to wander around the seas for 8 years and until a sea nymph felt sympathy for him. She told him how to capture her father Proteus the old man of the sea, who has vast knowledge. When Proteus was captured, he tells Menelaus to give rich gifts to gods. When Menelaus thanks him, saying he can at last go back even as the last of the Argives, Proteus says he isn't the last. He says that he had seen Odysseus weeping at the shores of Ogygia. So Helen's life wasn't that peaceful all along.
2007-12-11 07:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She went back to her husband, King Menelaus. She shows up in a brief mention in another story.
Telemachus, the son of Odysseus encounters her when he visits Menelaus while searching for his father after the Trojan War.
I've also seen other references that said "she ascended to Mt Olympus", which could be a euphemism for her dying or an implication that she was deified. (after all, she was a demigoddess and a daughter of Zeus)
2007-12-11 03:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Invisigoth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a simple answer. after the fall of troy and everything was obliterated, Helen went back to Menelaus and they continued their rule over Sparta.
From your friendly mythological/folklore person.
2007-12-11 04:26:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She wanders to this day, haunted by the memory of the carnage she witnessed from the walls of Troy, resentfull of the gods who cruelly used her in their petty and vain struggles, cursed with an immortality from which there is no respite, and burdened with a beauty that is so fierce that no one, not even herself, can bear to look upon it.
2007-12-11 06:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She went back her husbend after her lover died. Then they went to marriage counciling.
Kidding I really think she commited suscide or was killed by her husbend or just lived miserable for the rest of her life till she gained maturity and realized what a idiot she had been in the first place.
2007-12-11 04:33:10 · answer #6 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was probably raped by the entire invading fleet and dragged behind a horse...cant imagine they would let her get away with being a living symbol of an old political wound.
2007-12-11 03:23:26 · answer #7 · answered by GayLF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Menelaus start to kill her, not do it, take her home. She back in Sparta in Odyssey visited by Telemachus son of Odysseus. When Menelaus die, she exiled and hang self. After die, she marry Achilles in Isle of Blessed. Popular tale in Japan.
2007-12-11 03:58:43 · answer #8 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She was captured back by her husband (Agamemnon,was it?), he wanted to kill her but she stripped naked and her husband fell in love with her beauty all over again and forgave her.
2007-12-11 03:24:42 · answer #9 · answered by Julie K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
see the link below.
There seem to be two different trains of thought as to what happened to her, so maybe you will need to Read and decide for yourself which one you believe.
2007-12-11 03:23:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋