Not all kings were bound by the Oath. The Oath of Tyndareus applied only to Helen’s actual suitors. Agamemnon wasn’t one (he had Clytemnestra already), and others like Nestor, Ajax the Lesser, and Diomedes never courted Helen. They joined for politics, alliances, or ambition. So the idea that Agamemnon “enforced the oath on all Achaean kings” is wrong.
The Oath wasn’t the main cause of the war. Homer’s Iliad never even mentions it. The Oath shows up in later mythographers as a way to explain why so many heroes fought, but the war’s real narrative weight is about power struggles, honor, revenge, and divine medd
ling.
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No one cares. Why use this to defend a cartoon?
Who gives a fuck
The Oath wasn’t the main cause of the war. Homer’s Iliad never even mentions it. The Oath shows up in later mythographers as a way to explain why so many heroes fought, but the war’s real narrative weight is about power struggles, honor, revenge, and divine medd
ling.
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No one cares. Why use this to defend a cartoon?
Who gives a fuck