Menelaus and Paris

[helens_daughter]

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[merikeh]

Might the body have been laid out somewhere, in preparation for final funerary rights? Then it's just a question of Menelaus finding it during the sack of Troy. Or is it supposed to have been before they enter Troy?

[helens_daughter]

Paris died weeks or even months before the sack of Troy.

Menelaus and Paris

[ext_1593055]

As to the vase, you know the painters just made this stuff up! They neverbothered going to the public recital of the Iliad and they were notoriously illiterate. Bill

Re: Menelaus and Paris

[helens_daughter]

I was talking about the literary tradition, not the visual one. In fact, the image above is the duel of Menelaus and Paris as depicted in the Iliad. I was referring to the death of Paris after the events of the Iliad.