Menelaus appears in Greek vase painting in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, such as: Menelaus ' reception of Paris at Sparta ; his retrieval of Patroclus ' corpse ; and his reunion with Helen.

* Menelaus also appears in the 2004 film Troy, portrayed by Brendan Gleeson.

In Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache relates that Achilles killed Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe, but in Book 17, Podes appears and is killed by Menelaus.

He also appears in Book XV of the Odyssey, where he is shown offering valuable gifts to Telemachus together with Menelaus and Helen.

The hideous Phorkyas appears at the hearth, and warns Helen that Menelaus means to sacrifice her and her attendants.

It is uncertain who actually discovered the theorem ; however, the oldest extant exposition appears in Spherics by Menelaus.

Menelaus appears on the scene and orders the body not to be moved.

* Menelaus is a character in John Barth's short story, " Menelaiad " which is part of Lost in the Funhouse.

In Helen of Troy, a novel by Margaret George, Gelanor is a fictional character who acts as an advisor to the Spartans under Menelaus.

There then follows a series of farcical scenes in which Euripides, in a desperate attempt to rescue Mnesilochus, comes and goes in various disguises, first as Menelaus, a character from his own play Helen-to which Mnesilochus responds of course by playing out the role of Helen-and then as Perseus, a character from another Euripidean play, Andromeda, in which role he swoops heroically across the stage on a theatrical crane ( frequently used by Greek playwrights to allow for a deus ex machina )-to which Mnesilochus of course responds by acting out the role of Andromeda.

When Thyestes seized control in Mycenae, two exiled princes, Agamemnon and Menelaus came to Sparta, where they were received as guests and lived for a number of years.

A few, like Achilles, Alcmene, Amphiaraus Ganymede, Ino, Melicertes, Menelaus, Peleus, and a great number of those who fought in the Trojan and Theban wars, were considered to have been physically immortalized and brought to live forever in either Elysium, the Islands of the Blessed, heaven, the ocean, or literally right under the ground.

During the Islamic Golden Age, Muslim scholars devoted a number of works that engaged in the study of Menelaus ' theorem, which they referred to as " the proposition on the secants " ( shakl al-qatta ).

Al-Biruni's work, The Keys of Astronomy, lists a number of those works, which can be classified into studies as part of commentaries on Ptolemy's Almagest as in the works of al-Nayrizi and al-Khazin where each demonstrated particular cases of Menelaus ' theorem that led to the sine rule, or works composed as independent treatises such as:

Although early authors such as Aeschylus refer in passing to Menelaus ' early life, detailed sources are quite late, post-dating 5th-century BC Greek tragedy.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

This was Helen of Sparta, wife of the Greek king Menelaus.

In ancient Greek religion, this was a way the gods made some physically immortal, including such figures as Cleitus, Ganymede, Menelaus, and Tithonus.

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans ( Greeks ) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta.

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (, Menelaos ) was a legendary king of Mycenaean ( pre-Dorian ) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War.

Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey, Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy ; the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus.

The rest of the Greek kings swore their oaths, and Helen and Menelaus were married, Menelaus becoming a ruler of Sparta with Helen after Tyndareus and Leda either died or abdicated the thrones.

Menelaus of Alexandria ( c. 70 – 140 CE ) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines.

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy ( in Greek,, Helénē ), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda ( or Nemesis ), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra.

In Odyssey, however, Homer narrates a different story: Helen circled the Horse three times, and she imitated the voices of the Greek women left behind at home — she thus tortured the men inside ( including Odysseus and Menelaus ) with the memory of their loved ones, and brought them to the brink of destruction.

In Greek mythology, Pylades (; Greek: Πυλάδης ) is the son of King Strophius of Phocis and of Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

In Greek mythology, Atreus () was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

* Hermione ( mythology ), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name

In Greek mythology, Eteoneus ( Ἐτεωνεύς ) was the son of Boethous, and King Menelaus of Sparta's weapon-carrier during the Trojan War.

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.

Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.

* Business-Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ulysses, Patroclus and Ajax

Neoptolemus kills king Priam, even though he has taken refuge at the altar of Zeus ; Menelaus kills Deiphobus and takes back his wife Helen ; Ajax the Lesser rapes Cassandra and drags her from the altar of Athena.

The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:

a ) Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but Euripides tells us that, when he found her, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “ to punish her at Sparta ”, as he claimed, but in reality she got away with it.

According to Euripides ' Helen, after Menelaus dies, he is reunited with Helen on the Isle of the Blessed.

According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus ' return.

And although in Euripides ' Cretan Women, and the passage by Apollodorus cited above, Aerope was the wife of Pleisthenes, with Apollodorus saying that Pleisthenes was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, elsewhere both Euripides and Apollodorus follow Homer.

However Euripides and Apollodorus were not alone in making Pleisthenes the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

In his Andromache, Euripides dramatizes when she and her child were nearly assassinated by Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemus and daughter of Helen and Menelaus.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

In this play tension is maintained until the very end, when Euripides negotiates a peace and Mnesilochus is released from his bonds, yet the play is still typical of an Old Comedy in its introduction of ' unwanted visitors ' in the latter part of the play-here they include Menelaus, Perseus and Echo i. e. Euripides disguized as characters from his own plays.