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.
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.
but Menelaos came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.
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;
Later on Menelaos joined us at Lesbos, and found us making up our minds about our course - for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against the stormy headland of Mimas.
When they explained why they had called the people together, it seemed that Menelaos was for sailing homeward [ nostos] at once, and this displeased Agamemnon, who thought that we should wait till we had offered hecatombs to appease the anger of Athena.
Helen
King of Sparta, husband of Helen, leader of the Achaean expedition against Troy; shipwrecked in Egypt on his way home with a phantom he believes to be his wife.
O Menelaos, dearest of men, the time was long, but delight is just now ours.
) Menelaos, I find you, after taking great trouble to look for you, wandering over the whole of this foreign land;
Catching sight of Helen Welcome, daughter of Leda, were you here after all?