Menelaus eventually arrives to rescue his wife and escape. And so, the story ends. On its face, Helen thus appears to lack some of the dynamism or intellectual heft of other, better-known tragedies.
Sparta was home to King Menelaus and Helen: once Helen of Sparta, before she was kidnapped by the Trojan prince, Paris, and became Helen of Troy. Today, Menelaus and Helen’s Sparta is empty.
Menelaus enters to meet with Helen and deliver her fate. Hecuba watches to learn of Helen's Fate. But Helen reveals that it is not her fault for all the woes that have befallen. Hecuba is to blame.
The School of Theater displays power and strength in the performance of the Greek tragedy, “The Trojan Women.” ...
Helena is talking with him and trying to be sweet and cute and jovial. Menelaus is having none of it. A telliing of Helen of Troy. Menelaus deals with the emotional nature of his wife, Helena.
An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.
At any rate, they were superb. Claire Scott as Mrs. Menelaus--that's Helen of Troy to you--found the right gesture and accent for every line. She brought a polished comedienne's subtlety to a ...
My wife and I were winding through the maze-like grid of paths at the sumptuous Romanos Resort, the first of four ultra-luxury hotels to open at Costa Navarino, and this was more like a dream replete ...
Helen recounts to Paris her dreams; Hermes washes up in our world and is spoken to by a trippy, Keatsian “pair of livid lips”; Menelaus and his wife Helen have an odd arithmetic class.
For his reward, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, caused Helen, Queen of Sparta, to fall in love with Paris, leaving her husband Menelaus enraged, who then staged a war. The myth has also been adapted ...
Paris, Prince of Troy, is blown off-course and lands his ship at Sparta - home of Menelaus and his queen, Helen. The story is told by the Old Soldier, looking back forty years to when he was a ...