Castor and Polydeuces, my beloved, divine brothers, how I long for you. The war has adjourned and Troy has been burned to the ground and I despair that my brothers are no longer of this realm and now spend their days between Mt. Olympus and Hades, even now the two of you are inseparable. I have always admired and envied your bond and yearned for the same between Clytemnestra and I and now I am even more alone than ever.
Did the King of the Heavens know of the events he’d set off, I wonder? Zeus seduced our Queen Mother, Leda, in the guise of a swan before her union with our mortal father, Tyndareus and so the four of us were conceived, by two fathers, hatched from two eggs. Polydeuces, you and I shared divine blood and you, Castor, and …show more content…
I was kept, traded, and bartered, like the prized purebred Trojan horses. When I became of marriageable age, waves of men of great status, wealth, and power crashed our shores. Father dreaded picking a suitor to win my hand – not for my sake though; he feared that those rejected would seek vengeance against us. Looking back now, this was a prelude to my fate as my cursed beauty would indeed drive men into conflict and discord. It was the cunning Odysseus who solved our father’s dilemma and they agreed upon our cousin, Penelope’s hand in marriage - they’d be a fine pair, as she always looked at me so condescendingly. And so, the “Oath of Tyndareus” came to be and all the suitors swore to defend the victor should I ever be lost. They drew lots and thus, I became the bride of Menelaus and when father abdicated, I was crowned the Queen of Sparta and Laconia.
Menelaus was a fair husband, but there was no love in the marriage. He was a steady, honourable man, but unimpressive and average in the sea of suitors. He was neither the wittiest, mightiest, nor handsomest. Life in Sparta was peaceful, yet dreadfully boring. They say that when the old is put to rest, the new will be ushered in. And when my husband abruptly left to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Catreus, leaving me in charge of the estate, a new spark arrived in the form of a handsome, young
Did the King of the Heavens know of the events he’d set off, I wonder? Zeus seduced our Queen Mother, Leda, in the guise of a swan before her union with our mortal father, Tyndareus and so the four of us were conceived, by two fathers, hatched from two eggs. Polydeuces, you and I shared divine blood and you, Castor, and …show more content…
I was kept, traded, and bartered, like the prized purebred Trojan horses. When I became of marriageable age, waves of men of great status, wealth, and power crashed our shores. Father dreaded picking a suitor to win my hand – not for my sake though; he feared that those rejected would seek vengeance against us. Looking back now, this was a prelude to my fate as my cursed beauty would indeed drive men into conflict and discord. It was the cunning Odysseus who solved our father’s dilemma and they agreed upon our cousin, Penelope’s hand in marriage - they’d be a fine pair, as she always looked at me so condescendingly. And so, the “Oath of Tyndareus” came to be and all the suitors swore to defend the victor should I ever be lost. They drew lots and thus, I became the bride of Menelaus and when father abdicated, I was crowned the Queen of Sparta and Laconia.
Menelaus was a fair husband, but there was no love in the marriage. He was a steady, honourable man, but unimpressive and average in the sea of suitors. He was neither the wittiest, mightiest, nor handsomest. Life in Sparta was peaceful, yet dreadfully boring. They say that when the old is put to rest, the new will be ushered in. And when my husband abruptly left to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Catreus, leaving me in charge of the estate, a new spark arrived in the form of a handsome, young