Greek mythology
Menelaus
King of Sparta who waged ten years' war to reclaim Helen
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Siblings
- Agamemnon
- Group
- Mortal · Ruler · King
- Appears in
- Judgment of Paris · House of Atreus · Fall of Troy
- Places
- Troy
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Menelaus is the Spartan king and husband of Helen, whose abduction by Paris launches the Trojan War. Brother to Agamemnon, he fights Paris in single combat and would have killed him but for Aphrodite snatching her favorite away. When Troy falls he reclaims Helen and sails home, granted in the end a place in the blessed Elysian Fields.
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Judgment of Paris
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- Who is Menelaus?
- Menelaus is the Spartan king and husband of Helen, whose abduction by Paris launches the Trojan War. Brother to Agamemnon, he fights Paris in single combat and would have killed him but for Aphrodite snatching her favorite away.
- Which mythology does Menelaus belong to?
- Menelaus belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Menelaus appear in?
- Menelaus appears in Judgment of Paris, House of Atreus, Fall of Troy, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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