Menelaus

Menelaus (in ancient Greek Menelaos, "power of the people") is one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War and the king of Sparta. Son of Atreus and Erope, younger brother of Agamemnon, he is the husband of Helen, whom Paris abducts to Troy, thus leading the expedition of the Greek leaders to take her back.

In Homer's Iliad, he agrees to end the war by a duel with Paris and would have killed him if the latter had not been saved by Aphrodite.

Menelaus does well in the fight around Patroclus' body, but he is usually overshadowed by Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army.

He reappears in the Odyssey, living in Sparta, reconciled with Helen, receiving a visit from Ulysses' son, Telemachus; he returned to Sparta when Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

Descent

* From his wife, Helen:Hermione and Nicostratos
* From Pieris, a concubine:Megapenthes
* From Cnossia, a concubine:Xénodamos

The Atreides

Myrmidons

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