(CHAPTER PROLOGUE) #6: The Oath of Tyndareus
As Helen, daughter of Zeus, comes of age, kings and princes from across Hellas gather in Lacedeamon (Sparta) seeking her hand, including Menelaus, a favored prince of Mycenae, Diomedes, a rising young king of Argos, Ajax the Great and Ajax the Lesser, renowned warriors of noble lineage, Teucer, a skilled archer of Salamis, Philoctetes, bearer of Heracles’ sacred bow, Protesilaus, a strong Thessalian leader, Machaon and Podalirius, divine-born healers, and Odysseus, famed for his cunning, all drawn by the chance to join her divine bloodline.