Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of CitiesLang, Andrew
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Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
Lang, Andrew
Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature; Trojan War -- Juvenile literature
Then Helen stole, glimmering in white robes, from a recess in the dark
hall, and fell at the feet of Menelaus; her golden hair lay in the dust
of the hearth, and her hands moved to touch his knees. His drawn sword
fell from the hands of Menelaus, and pity and love came into his heart,
and he raised her from the dust and her white arms were round his neck,
and they both wept. That night Menelaus fought no more, but they tended
the wound of Ulysses, for the sword of Deiphobus had bitten through his
helmet.
When dawn came Troy lay in ashes, and the women were being driven with
spear shafts to the ships, and the men were left unburied, a prey to dogs
and all manner of birds. Thus the grey city fell, that had lorded it for
many centuries. All the gold and silver and rich embroideries, and ivory
and amber, the horses and chariots, were divided among the army; all but
a treasure of silver and gold, hidden in a chest within a hollow of the
wall, and this treasure was found, not very many years ago, by men
digging deep on the hill where Troy once stood. The women, too, were
given to the princes, and Neoptolemus took Andromache to his home in
Argos, to draw water from the well and to be the slave of a master, and
Agamemnon carried beautiful Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, to his
palace in Mycenae, where they were both slain in one night. Only Helen
was led with honour to the ship of Menelaus.
The story of all that happened to Ulysses on his way home from Troy is
told in another book, "Tales of the Greek Seas."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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