Menelaos
mythological figure · 3 works · 27 mentions · 75 anchored passages
son of Atreus · Menelaos son of Atreus · brave Menelaos · yellow-haired Menelaos · King Menelaos · Menelaos of the loud battle-cry · Menelaos of the loud war-cry · brother of Agamemnon · my lord · the stranger
in the texts
Iliad
Brother of Agamemnon, named by Achilles as one of the reasons for the war against Troy.
for your pleasure, not ours - to gain satisfaction [ timê] from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaos.
but Menelaos came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.
these were led by Menelaos of the loud battle-cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.
Odyssey
King of Sparta, the last of the Achaeans to reach home, whom Athena advises Telemachus to visit for news of his father.
thence go on to Sparta and visit Menelaos, for he got home last of all the Achaeans;
Was Menelaos away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhere among humankind, that Aigisthos took heart and killed Agamemnon?
moreover there was a singer with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife;