Odysseus' Long Way Home

Abstract

The gods considered the conquest of Troy and the destruction of its temples a sacrilege, and punished many of the Greek leaders. On the way home, the Greek fleet was almost entirely destroyed by tempests. Menelaus' ships wandered for seven years before arriving at Sparta. Agamemnon, upon returning home to Argos, was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, and Aegisthus, her lover, starting the ensuing horrible tragedy of the House of Atreids.