title: Miriam and Menelaus
author: Rose, Jackie
description: She is Moses’ sister Miriam, helping to lead their fellow slaves from Egyptian bondage to their Promised Land. Miriam meets King Menelaus as he is going to war to reclaim his runaway wife, Helen of Troy. When the Spartan ruler sees the Hebrew prophetess dancing in the desert, they will soon be torn between their duty to their people and their own forbidden desires.