ENG 201 Chapter 20: chapter 20
8 Dec 2016
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Chapter 20 the returns and the odyssey. Ajax the lesser (son of oileus) and agamemnon. Athena raised a storm in the aegean in anger at the sacrilege of ajax, during the sack of troy. The storm wrecked agamemnon"s fleet (with which ajax was sailing). Poseidon with his trident, since he boasted of his escape from drowning. A second storm struck the fleet, wrecking many more ships on the coast of euboae. Agamemnon finally reached mycenae, where he was murdered by clytemnestra and aegisthus. Menelaus reached egypt after losing ships in another storm. Seven years after the fall of troy, menelaus and helen reached sparta safely and resumed their life together. At his deaeth, menelaus was transported to elysium (rather than hades) because, as the husband of the immortal helen, he was the son-in-law of zeus. Diomedes, who had wounded aphrodite at troy, returned to.
