Menelaus killed Deiphobus, Helen's husband after Paris ' death, and also intended to kill Helen, but, overcome by her beauty, threw down his sword and took her to the ships.

Menelaus soundly beats Paris, but before he can kill him and claim victory Aphrodite spirits Paris away inside the walls of Troy.

In Book 4, while the Greeks and Trojans squabble over the duel's winner, Athena inspires the Trojan Pandarus to kill Menelaus with his bow and arrow.

b ) According to the Bibliotheca Epitome and Proclus in " Ilion's Conquest ", Menelaus raised his sword in front of the temple of Minerva in the central square of Troy to kill her but his wrath went away when he saw her tearing her clothes to reveal her breasts.

When Menelaus finally found her, he raised his sword to kill her.

When he already entered adulthood, Thyestes was captured by Agamemnon and Menelaus at Delphi and brought to Atreus, who sent Aegisthus to kill him.

The brothers debate the matter and, eventually, each seemingly changes the other's mind: Menelaus is apparently convinced that it would be better to disband the Greek army than to have his niece killed, but Agamemnon is now ready to carry out the sacrifice, claiming that the army will storm his palace at Argos and kill his entire family if he does not.

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

Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus ' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

Hera offered political power ; Athena promised skill in battle ; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta.

Paris therefore proposes single combat between himself and Menelaus, with Helen to go to the victor, ending the war.

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.

From there, Telemachus rides overland, accompanied by Nestor's son, Peisistratus, to Sparta, where he finds Menelaus and Helen who are now reconciled.

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 exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy.

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.

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.

Menelaus returned to Sparta with Helen eight years after he had left Troy.

Site of the Menelaion, the shrine to Helen and Menelaus constructed anciently in the Bronze Age city that stood on the hill of Therapnes | Therapne on the left bank of the Eurotas ( river ) | Eurotas River overlooking the future site of Dorian Sparta.

Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively.

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.

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 and Helen had a daughter, Hermione as supported, for example, by Sappho and some variations of the myth suggest they had two sons as well.

Menelaus regains Helen, detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca.

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.

During the sack of Troy, Menelaus killed Deiphobus, who had married Helen after the death of Paris.

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:

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

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

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.

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 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.

He tells him the story of his death, which entails Helen's betrayal in signaling Menelaus to Deiphobus's bedchamber.

Menelaus tells Telemachus of his own detour in Egypt on his way home from the Trojan War, during which he learned that Odysseus is still alive, a virtual captive of the nymph Calypso.

Nestor in a digression tells Menelaus how Epopeus was destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus, the story of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne.

Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.

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.