Page "Helen of Troy" Paragraph 88

According to Pausanias the geographer ( 3. 19. 9 – 10 ): " The account of the Rhodians is different.

They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus.

For Polyxo, they say, was an Argive by descent, and when she was already married to Tlepolemus, shared his flight to Rhodes.

At the time she was queen of the island, having been left with an orphan boy.

They say that this Polyxo desired to avenge the death of Tlepolemus on Helen, now that she had her in her power.

So she sent against her when she was bathing handmaidens dressed up as Furies, who seized Helen and hanged her on a tree, and for this reason the Rhodians have a sanctuary of Helen of the Tree.