Question

How does Helen keep everyone from crying at dinner?

She tells a heart-warming story about how she helped Odysseus on a spy mission at Troy.
She drugs the wine.
She makes a joke about how handsome Menelaus is.
She tells the story about the Trojan Horse.

Answer 1

She makes a joke about how handsome Menelaus is because a joke can make anyone laugh or happy and I have never known a person to cry at dinner after a joke.

Answer 2

She drugs the wine.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this scene, Menelaus is told all about the dead in Troy and the death of Odysseus and so everyone is sad and crying. For this reason, Helena drugged the wine that people were drinking with a drug called pharmakon that causes nullification of pain, anger and forgetfulness of all evils. This story. all who drank of wine were unable to cry as they heard Menelaus speak.