The stories of Diomedes, Idomeneus, and Philoctetes seem to be connected with the foundation of Greek colonies in Italy (the first at Cumae in 732 B.C.). He too went to Italy and founded several cities. Philoctetes returned to Thessaly and also was driven out by his people. He left Argos and came to Italy, where he founded several cities.
Diomedes, who had wounded Aphrodite at Troy, returned to Argos to find that the goddess had caused his wife, Aegialia, to be unfaithful. Of the other Peloponnesian leaders, Nestor returned to Pylos safely. At his death Menelaüs was transported to Elysium (rather than Hades), because, as the husband of the immortal Helen, he was the son-in-law of Zeus. Seven years after the fall of Troy, Menelaüs and Helen reached Sparta safely and resumed their life together. The visit of Menelaüs to Egypt fits with the legend (see MLS, Chapter 19) that Helen spent the years of the war in Egypt, while her phantom went to Troy. The sea-god Proteus told him how to appease the gods and sail back safely to Greece. Menelaüs reached Egypt after losing five ships in another storm.
Agamemnon finally reached Mycenae, where he was murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus (see MLS, Chapter 18). A second storm struck the fleet, wrecking many more ships on the coast of Euboea. The storm wrecked much of Agamemnon’s fleet (with which Ajax was sailing), and Ajax, who boasted of his escape from drowning, was killed by Poseidon with his trident. Athena raised a storm in the Aegean in anger at the sacrilege of Ajax, son of Oileus, during the sack of Troy (see MLS, Chapter 19). The returns from Troy of the Achaean heroes, other than Odysseus, were narrated in a lost epic called Nostoi, “Returns.” The return of Odysseus is the subject of Homer’s Odyssey.Ījax the Lesser (Son of Oileus) and Agamemnon.
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