Menelaos
quoted 14 times by 3 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Menelaos the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
12 quoted · 2 reported
14 neutralin the voice of Agamemnon 4 , Ajax son of Telamon 2 , Euphorbos 2 , Adrastos 1 , Ajax 1 , Antilokhos 1 , Athena 1 , Helen 1 , Telemakhos 1
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in the voice of Agamemnon
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Iliad Homer 12 neutral 12 citations · 13 passages
book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 6 2 passages anchored here · book 7 2 passages anchored here · book 17 6 passages anchored here · book 23Agamemnon speaks directly to Menelaos, mixing grief, self-blame, and a prophetic vow of vengeance.
And Agamemnon answered, "I trust, dear Menelaos, that it may be even so, but the surgeon shall examine your wound and lay herbs upon it to relieve your pain.
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in the voice of Helen
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Helen Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation · 5 passages
Helen reports, falsely, the death of Menelaos to Theoklymenos, an act of reported (fabricated) speech central to the deception plot.
Helen:
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in the voice of Telemakhos
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Odyssey Homer 1 neutral 1 citation
A speech act attributed to Menelaos is embedded within Telemakhos's larger reported narrative.
but he said he had not heard a word from any human being about Odysseus, whether he was alive or dead.
book 17 ¶
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