This week on Myths and Legends, we're back in Greek myths,

catching up with everyone in their post-Trojan war lives, or Black thereof.

We'll see Menelaus get his groove back, and Telemachus deal with a bunch of guys who want to

marry his mom. The creature this week is an adorable tiny elephant that's definitely gonna try to

eat your brain.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 220A, the Castaways.

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly

popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins, and others are stories

that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. Previously on the podcast,

the Greeks went to war with the Trojans, and one, mostly it took 10 years,

and the loss of thousands of lives, and to trick from the gods, but finally they were on their way

home, to somehow even more death and destruction. When we last left the characters, Agamemnon,

after losing most of his men to a churning Aegean on the way home, died himself when he was

stabbed by his wife and her lover. Menelaus, King of Sparta, and husband to the recently

recovered Helen, hadn't been seen after he was separated from Nester at sea. Of his men,

Odysseus was the sole survivor, marooned on an island with a goddess, after the sun god brought

vengeance on their ship over some stolen cows. This week, we're gonna catch up with three of the

stories. Arrestes, son of Agamemnon, Telemachus, son of Odysseus, and Menelaus, brother of

Agamemnon, as they navigate the dangerous and equally deadly post-war world.

Menelaus pinched the bridge of his nose. It's not that he didn't want to have a

serious relationship conversation right now, but he kind of had to, you know, guide hundreds of

men back from war, so could they put a pin in this? Helen, fists clenched, and screaming internally,

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