...sticity about this well-known scene, though the dignity and influence assigned to the repentant wife are perhaps more than modern. In the Fourth Book of the Odyssey the young Telemachus visits King Menelaus , to inquire as to the fate of his own father, Odysseus. While they are conversing, Helen enters,--the beauty of the world, and the source of its greatest ills. She comes dignified, graceful, hono...