Ménélas

Ménélas (in Greek old Μενέλαος / Menélaos , “capacity of the people”) is one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War and the king of Sparte. Wire of Atrée and Érope, young brother of Agamemnon, he is the husband of Helene, that Pâris removes towards Troy, thus involving the forwarding of the Greek chiefs to take it again.

In Iliade of Homère, it agrees to put an end to the war by a duel with Pâris and would have killed it if this last had not been saved by Aphrodite.

Ménélas holds well its role in the combat around the body of Patrocle, but it is in general eclipsed by Agamemnon, the chief of the Greek army.

It reappears in the Odyssey , living in Sparte, reconciled with Helene, receiving the visit of the son of Ulysses, Télémaque; it returned in Sparte when Oreste killed Clytemnestre and Égisthe.

Descent

Of its wife, Helene: Hermione and Nicostratos

Sources

External bonds

'' the Voyage of Ménélas '', by A. Kirchenbauer.

Simple: Menelaus

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