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MENELAUS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 128 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MENELAUS , in Greek legend, son of
Atreus
  (or Pleisthenes), king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen. He was one of the Greeks who entered Troy concealed in the wooden horse (Virgil, Aeneid, ii. 264) and recovered his wife at the sack of the city. On the voyage homewards his
fleet
  was scattered off Cape Malea by a
storm
 , which drove him to
Egypt
 . After eight years' wandering in the
east
 , he landed on. the
island
  of Pharos, where Proteus revealed to him the means of appeasing the gods and securing his return. He reached Sparta on the day on which Orestes was holding the funeral feast over
Aegisthus
  and Clytaemnestra. After a long and happy life in Lacedaemon, Menelaus, as the son-in-law of Zeus, did not die but was translated to Elysium (
Homer
 , Odyssey, iii. iv.). His grave and that of Helen were shown at Therapnae, where he was worshipped as a god (Pausanias iii. 19, g). He was represented in works of art as carrying off the
body
  of the dead Patroclus or lifting up his hand to slay Helen.


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