Post-War
The aftermath of the Trojan War wasn’t pretty. The Greeks threw Hector’s son from the walls, King Priam of Troy was killed by Achilles’s son, Andromache (Hector’s wife) and Cassandra were taken for prisoners. Helen, Paris’s love, was given back to King Menelaus.
The gods punished many Greeks for destroying sacred temples, and it took seven years at sea for King Menelaus’s ship to find its way. Also, back at home, King Agamemnon was murdered by his wife (Helen’s twin, less divine sister) and her lover.
Odysseus had another adventure ahead of him, though. He still had to venture out with his men, and, becoming an enemy of Poseidon, god of the sea, it ended up being another ten years before he finally made it back to Ithaca and his wife. He endured much, such as visiting the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and getting past the monsters Scylla and Charybdis.
