Overcome with grief, she committed suicide. The 19th-century English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem about her, “The Death of Oenone.”
Does Oenone die?
She, hurt by his betrayal of her with Helen of Sparta, refused to help him and he was carried back to Troy where he died. Oenone repented of her decision and rushed to Troy with aid but arrived too late. In her grief and regret, she flung herself onto his funeral pyre and died.
Is Oenone a Trojan?
Oenone was one of the Naiad nymphs of Greek mythology made famous by the fact that she was also the scorned first wife of the Trojan prince Paris.