Menelaos's sword
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
sword · this two-edged sword · two-edged sword
in the texts
Helen
Menelaos's two-edged sword, used as both a suicide threat during the supplication and later as his weapon in the escape's sacrifice and ambush.
If he refuses to meet me face to face, but hunts us down, two suppliants at the tomb, by starvation, I am resolved to kill this woman, and then to plunge this two-edged sword through my heart, on the surface of the tomb, so that streams of blood may run down the grave;
Well, what if I were to hide in the house and kill the king with this two-edged sword?
for if he does something harsh to you, this tomb and your sword would protect you.
Iliad
Menelaos's sword, which shatters into pieces when he strikes Alexander's helmet during the duel.
Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, "Father Zeus, of all gods you are the most spiteful;