In Homer’s Odyssey Odysseus’s son Telemachus visited Sparta seeking news of his absent father, who had not returned to Ithaca after the Trojan War. There, he was entertained by Menelaus and Helen, who recounted stories of Odysseus’s bravery in the war. As the husband of a daughter of Zeus (Helen’s parents were Zeus and Leda), Menelaus was promised a place in Elysium after his death.
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