It’s going to be weird seeing a sympathetic Menelaus happily married to Helen after ‘Troy’ and its derivatives cemented him as an abusive asshole and theirs as an arranged marriage she hated.
"Happily married" feels like a stretch for any Greek mythology couple.
>Brendan Gleeson in Troy>Jon Bernthal in The OdysseyMenelaus is a /tv/ meme magnet role, it seems.
>>220437509>Jewnelausof course (((they))) will.
Where did Helen running off with Paris consensually come from? It wasn't in the original Homeric epics(at least not my copy) but it was mentioned in Divine Comedy, so somewhere between there? Some Roman retelling maybe?
>>220437509>leemeaachtusumting Priam
>>220437509>Woman goes back to her abuser
>>220440664Romans mythologised themselves as descending from the Trojans, as described in the Aenid so their retelling tend to cast the trojans in a favouable light and ulixsses as a trickster and schemer
>>220440625Burnlocal looks more med and greek-accurate than the irish guy
>>220440664>Some Roman retelling maybe?obviously, the romans thought Odysseus was some anarchist piece of shit.
>>220440734>Semite looks more medok, Moshe.
>>220437509Menelaus was always sympathetic. Guy had his wife stolen and wanted her back. Her new husband couldn’t even 1v1 him.
>>220440664I reckon the early versions of the myth had her running off with Paris consensually, albeit still because she was under the influence of Aphrodite. Later versions changed it to Paris straight up abducting her after Aphrodite’s magic wore off after they fucked the first time, or Aphrodite just blessing Paris to manage to escape Sparta with the captive Helen, which is honestly a bum deal for Paris choosing her as the fairest. Gods be dicks and all.
>>220440664The homeric poems are only a part of the "epic cycles". Most of them have been lost.
>>220437509everytime i see the bottom screenshot i think it's the guy from key and peele going "i think we all know who we're talking about"
