Theseus and Helen of Troy

Theseus and Helen of Troy

Syoinkismis said Theseus

All his folks

Gathered around!

United were his folks:

Attica under Athens,

Ogres and monsters subdued.

Helen of Troy

Won't offspring bear

For Theseus!

The achiever of syoinkismis.

He gathered together the Athenians

Yet he lost: the beauty

Of Troy.  First to Menelaus then

To Paris.

Metamorphoses he desired

The mighty king.

In Paris's flesh.

To win his Helen back.

Alas the Trojan War is in flames.

Nascent legend of Trojan War

spreading through the millenniums.

From tongue to tongue.