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.

After Paris's death, his brother Deiphobus married Helen and was then murdered by Menelaus in the sack of Troy.

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.

Telemachus then departs with Nestor's son Peisistratus, who accompanies him to the halls of Menelaus and his wife Helen.

Things soon changed after Orestes committed matricide: Menelaus then gave his daughter to Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia.

They then took hostage Hermione, daughter of Helen and Menelaus.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Menelaus then called on the chieftains to help him take back Helen.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

On the King's return from Egypt in 167 BC enraged by his defeat, he attacked Jerusalem and restored Menelaus, then executed many Jews.

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.

In Lacedaemon the Trojans are entertained by the sons of Tyndareus, Castor and Polydeuces, and by Menelaus, who then sets sail for Crete, ordering Helen to furnish the guests with all they require.

Menelaus then enters leading to a standoff between him and Orestes, Electra, and Pylades, who have successfully captured Hermione.

Menelaus was arrested for Onias ' murder, and was arraigned before Antiochus, but he bribed his way out of trouble.

* Jason removes Menelaus as High Priest in Jerusalem, which Antiochus IV regards as an affront to his majesty.

While Antiochus IV is waging war against Egypt, he succeeds in making himself master of Jerusalem once more and forces Menelaus to seek refuge in the citadel.

Jason's time as high priest is brought to an abrupt end when he sends Menelaus, the brother of Simon the Benjamite, to deliver money to Antiochus IV.

Menelaus takes this opportunity to " outbid " Jason for the priesthood, resulting in Antiochus IV confirming Menelaus as the High Priest.

The High Priest appointed by Antiochus, Menelaus, was forced to flee Jerusalem during a riot.

After Antiochus was claimed to be dead, while trying to conquer Egypt, the Jews made an effort to overrule Menelaus, the high priest.

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.

She was also one of two horses driven by Menelaus at the funeral games of Patroclus.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

This woman was Helen, who was, unfortunately for Paris, already married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

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

There, on the island of Pharos, Menelaus encountered the old sea-god Proteus, who told him that Odysseus was a captive of the nymph Calypso.

Incidentally, Telemachus learns the fate of Menelaus ’ brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks at Troy: he was murdered on his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Proteus emerged from the sea to sleep among his colony of seals, but Menelaus was successful in holding him, though Proteus took the forms of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, even of water or a tree.

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.

Antenor, who had given hospitality to Menelaus and Odysseus when they asked for the return of Helen, and who had advocated so, was spared, along with his family.

He had a feud with Orestes ( son of Agamemnon ) over Menelaus ' daughter Hermione, and was killed in Delphi, where he was buried.

According to some stories the Helen who was taken by Paris was a fake, and the real Helen was in Egypt, where she was reunited with Menelaus.

Proteus also told Menelaus that he was destined for Elysium ( Heaven ) after his death.

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 suitor who won was Menelaus ( Tyndareus, not to displease the powerful Agamemnon offered him another daughter Clytaemnestra ).

After concluding a diplomatic mission to Sparta during the latter part of which Menelaus was absent to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus, Paris absconded to Troy with Helen in tow despite his brother Hector forbidding her to depart with them.

While Judas was in power, Menelaus was appointed as high priest by the Syrian king.

* The Jewish High Priest Menelaus, who is supported by the Hellenist party, is removed from office and is executed.

Jason subsequently drove out Menelaus and became High Priest again.

" In the conflict over the office of High Priest, traditionalists with Hebrew / Aramaic names like Onias contested with Hellenizers with Greek names like Jason and Menelaus.

A period of political intrigue followed, with priests such as Menelaus bribing the king to win the High Priesthood, and accusations of murder of competing contenders for the title.

" In the conflict over the office of High Priest, traditionalists with Hebrew / Aramaic names like Onias contested with Hellenizers with Greek names like Jason and Menelaus.

He accelerates Seleucid efforts to eradicate the Jewish religion by forcing the Jewish High Priest Onias III to step down in favor of his brother Jason, who was replaced by Menelaus three years later.

The Hellenizing High Priest Menelaus was removed from office and executed.

Ezekiel (), thought to be prophetic of the High Priests Jason and Menelaus, deserted their religion and their nation to the horror and hatred of their contemporaries.