My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Akheas draws the long straw amongst a group of slaves, Trojans taken captive after the fall of their city, to avenge the fall of their city. Hiding from the slave guards and getting help from an Egyptian servant woman of the man who took them captive, Akheas hides in a warehouse until the same woman comes for him and gets him to the royal palace before giving him a sword to complete his mission. A palace slave from Egypt then gets him into the room of his target. After his target returns and after being left alone, Akheas emerges from his hiding place to look upon Helen. He is almost overcome with lust when he sees a well-crafted necklace that she is wearing, a necklace he made for Queen Hecuba and the spell is broken as he pulls out his sword and exacts vengeance on Helen of Sparta for the sack of Troy. This is a well-crafted story and it took in not only the famous aspects of the Trojan War but also some not so familiar legends surrounding it about Helen being in Egypt either with Paris or after the war.
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