Troy reaction series! Big thanks to team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project for coming along and reacting with me. Today ...

Enraged upon the discovery, Menelaus goes to his brother demanding revenge, and Agamemnon seizes the opportunity to bring war to Troy, setting the stage for one of the greatest wars in human history.

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book.

After recent raids on neighboring towns, Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon has laid claim to a young woman named Chryseis. The status of a warrior is reflected by the prizes awarded to him by his ...

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book.

Meanwhile, Menelaus’ brother, Agamemnon (Brian Cox), is blustering his way across Greece in a major way. Characterized here (although not in the original) as arrogant and crazy for conquest, ...

Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks and Menelaus’ brother, vowed to bring her home. To satisfy this point of honor, he risked the lives of his men, his allies and his own power.

But the brothers Menelaus and Agamemnon cannot grasp that her absence from home and family is voluntary, the way it might be for a man. “One time right after our daughter was born,” Helen says ...

Subsequently, Menelaus recruits his brother King Agamemnon of Mycenae - and, through him, many of the great heroes of Greece - to launch an attack on Troy.