[1] After her marriage to Tlepolemus and his subsequent exile due to his murder of Licymnius, Polyxo followed him to the island of Rhodes, where they had a son together.
[6] Mourning greatly, Polyxo organised funerary games for her deceased husband in which children competed and the victors were crowned with wreaths of poplar leaves.
[7] Many years later, after Menelaus had died, his illegitimate sons drove Helen out of Sparta, and she came to Rhodes, requesting shelter from her old friend Polyxo who was ruling as queen at the time.
Polyxo, wanting to avenge Tlepolemus, sent a large host of Rhodians armed with stones and fire to the ships.
[15] Menelaus hid Helen under the deck, and made one of his wife's most beautiful attendants wear her crown and garment.