after the war
After the war, Polyxena, daughter of Priam, was sacrificed at the tomb of
Achilles and Astyanax, son of Hector, was also sacrificed, signifying the end of
the war.
Aeneas, a Trojan prince, managed to escape the destruction of Troy and Virgil's
Aeneid tells of his flight from Troy. Many sources say that Aeneas was the only
Trojan prince to survive, but this statement contradicts the common story that
Andromache was married to Helenus, twin of Cassandra, after the war.
Menelaus, who had been determined to kill his faithless wife, was soon taken by
Helen's beauty and seductiveness that he allowed her to live.
The surviving Trojan women were divided among the Greek men along with the other
plunder. The Greeks then set sail for home, which, for some, proved as difficult
and took as much time as the Trojan War itself, such as Odysseus.
Agamemnon, ironically, was killed by his own wife Clytemnestra and her new lover
Aegistos after he brought Cassandra home as his servant.
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