Editing Helenus (son of Priam) (section)

=== Other myths ===
In one account, Helenus got his mother Hecuba after the [[Trojan War]] and they crossed over to the [[Chersonesus|Chersonese]] where the queen was turned into a bitch. Helenus then buried her at the place now called the Bitch's Tomb.<ref>Apollodorus, Epitome 5.23</ref>

In one version of the myth, [[Agamemnon]] summoned all of the traitors who helped betray Troy and honored their promises to them after the sack of the Troy. Two of which were Helenus and Cassandra who had always pled with Priam for peace, and how Helenus had successfully urged the return of Achilles’ body for burial. Accordingly, Agamemnon, following the advice of the council, gave Helenus and Cassandra their freedom. Then Helenus, remembering how Hecuba and Andromache had always loved him, interceded with Agamemnon in their behalf. The latter by advice of the council gave these their freedom. It is said that these four migrated to the Thracian Chersonese where they settled with twelve hundred followers.<ref>Dares Phrygius, 42–44</ref>

In [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'' ({{circa|1136}}) Helenus was captured by Neoptolemus along with many other Trojans, and taken in chains to Greece as revenge for the death of [[Achilles]] in the Trojan War. Under Neoptolemus' orders, they and their descendants remained in slavery until the time of King [[Pandrasus]] several generations later, when they were liberated by [[Brutus of Troy]].<ref name="HRB 1">{{cite wikisource | author=[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] | wslink=Six Old English Chronicles/Geoffrey's British History | chapter=Book 1 | plaintitle=[[Historia Regum Britanniae]] | at=Chapters 3–11 }}</ref>