Bleeckers' article re: Illiad is wrong


rnginpa
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Re: Arline & Sam Bleecker's article, "Follow in explorers' footsteps on a cruise around the world," and their statement "you can walk in the footsteps of Odysseus, Achilles and Ajax in Troy, where they battled King Menelaus for the most beautiful woman in the ancient world, his wife, Helen,"    what version did of the Illiad did they read?  The movie?  

 

Menelaus was brother to Agamemnon, who rallied the Greeks (including Odysseus, Achilles and Ajax) to attack Troy so that Menelaus could recover Helen from Troy.  They were not the enemies of Menelaus but allies of his.

 

where were the CCT's copy editors?

 

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