Menelaos

Menelaos — Menelaos (Egypt), Pleiades 716599

Menelaos Menelaus Menelaos, brother of Agamemnon

• son of Atreus, suitor of Helen: Apollod. 3.10.7
• chosen her husband: Apollod. 3.10.8; Paus. 2.22.6
• his children: Apollod. 3.10.8, Apollod. 3.11.1
• sent for to Sparta by Tyndareus, who hands over the kingdom to him: Apollod. 3.11.2
• carried by his nurse to Polyphides at Sicyon: Apollod. E.2.14, Apollod. E.2.15
• sent to Oeneus in Aetolia: Apollod. E.2.15
• helps Agamemnon to expel Thyestes: Apollod. E.2.15
• marries Helen and reigns over Sparta: Apollod. E.2.15
• entertains Alexander (Paris): Apollod. E.3.2
• his visit to Egypt: Hdt. 2.118, Hdt. 2.119
• Cretans reminded of their assistance of Menelaus before Troy: Hdt. 7.169, Hdt. 7.171
• goes to Crete to bury Catreus: Apollod. E.3.2
• begs Agamemnon to muster an army against Troy: Apollod. E.3.5
• goes to Cinyras in Cyprus: Apollod. E.3.7
• son of Atreus and Aerope, leader of the Lacedaemonians against Troy: Apollod. E.3.11
• sent to Troy with Odysseus to demand the restoration of Helen: Apollod. E.3.27
• fights Alexander: Apollod. E.4.1; Paus. 2.13.3, Paus. 5.22.2
• hospitably received by Antenor: Paus. 10.26.7
• takes shield of Euphorbus: Paus. 2.17.3
• competes at funeral games of Patroclus: Paus. 5.8.3
• would slay Helen: Paus. 5.18.3
• slays Deiphobus and leads away Helen: Apollod. E.5.21
• quarrels with Agamemnon: Apollod. E.5.23
• returns from Troy: Paus. 10.25.2ff.
• driven by a storm to Egypt: Apollod. E.5.23
• puts in at Sunium: Apollod. E.6.28
• wanders to Crete, Libya, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Egypt: Apollod. E.6.28
• finds Helen in Egypt: Apollod. E.6.28
• lands at Mycenae and finds Orestes: Apollod. E.6.28
• goes to Sparta and regains his kingdom: Apollod. E.6.28
• sets up images of Thetis and Praxidica: Paus. 3.22.2
• buried with Helen at Therapne: Paus. 3.19.9
• goes to the Elysian Fields with Helen: Apollod. E.6.28
• temple of: Paus. 3.19.9
• house: Paus. 3.14.6
• device on shield: Paus. 10.26.3
• plane-tree of:
• spring of: Paus. 8.23.4
• Menelaus represented in art: Paus. 1.33.8, Paus. 2.13.3, Paus. 3.18.16, Paus. 5.18.3, Paus. 5.22.2, Paus. 10.26.3

Menelaos(2), son of Plisthenes and Aerope Menelaus

• Apollod. 3.2.1

Menelaos(3), a harbour near Cyrene Menelaus

• Hdt. 4.169

Menelaos(4), satrap of Ptolemy Menelaus

• defeated by Demetrius: Paus. 1.6.6