person
Menelaus
King of Sparta, husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon; the war was fought to win Helen back to him.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §273 Menelaus
Agamemnon's brother and Helen's husband, king of Sparta.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.80.8 Menelaus
A second tragic line --- a king's threat against Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon. Like the previous verse, it is the swagger of the theater's painted royalty, set against the festering misery of the actually powerful.
- Thyestes §323 Menelaus
Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and future husband of Helen.
- The Trojan Women §935 Menelaus
King of Sparta, husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon; the war was fought to win Helen back to him.