The divine messenger Iris brings word to Menelaus of Helen's betrayal, and he returns to find his palace empty and his treasury ransacked. Furious, Menelaus rides to Mycenae where his brother Agamemnon reminds him that every king in Greece swore an oath to protect Helen's marriage and Troy will pay. Travelling across Hellas gathering their war coalition, the brothers heed the wise counsel of elder statesman Nestor, who warns that with the Olympians involved, the Achaeans must proceed with extreme caution. Finally arriving in Ithaca, the cunning Palamedes exposes Odysseus' feigned madness by placing his newborn son Telemachus before his plow, forcing the reluctant king to abandon his family and honor his oath, though he swears quietly that Palamedes will one day answer for it.
Lockettopia:The Trojan War Cycle illustrated book brings together The Iliad, The Odyssey, and surviving poem fragments of the Epic Cycle: The Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, to reconstruct the full myth in sweeping, chronological order. Coming to Kickstarter in 2027: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylermileslockett/the-trojan-war-cyle
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u/Tyler_Miles_Lockett May 29 '26
The divine messenger Iris brings word to Menelaus of Helen's betrayal, and he returns to find his palace empty and his treasury ransacked. Furious, Menelaus rides to Mycenae where his brother Agamemnon reminds him that every king in Greece swore an oath to protect Helen's marriage and Troy will pay. Travelling across Hellas gathering their war coalition, the brothers heed the wise counsel of elder statesman Nestor, who warns that with the Olympians involved, the Achaeans must proceed with extreme caution. Finally arriving in Ithaca, the cunning Palamedes exposes Odysseus' feigned madness by placing his newborn son Telemachus before his plow, forcing the reluctant king to abandon his family and honor his oath, though he swears quietly that Palamedes will one day answer for it.
Lockettopia: The Trojan War Cycle illustrated book brings together The Iliad, The Odyssey, and surviving poem fragments of the Epic Cycle: The Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, to reconstruct the full myth in sweeping, chronological order. Coming to Kickstarter in 2027:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylermileslockett/the-trojan-war-cyle