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The formidable ruler of Sparta, who spent 10 years on the return of his unfaithful wife, is a symbol of perseverance, pride and stubbornness. Menelaus grew up among royalty and on the first try won the heart of a beautiful woman. Therefore, the man could not forgive the insult inflicted by the romantic youth. The result was a long-term war that devastated Troy and its entire region.
Origin story
The image of the deceived husband, whom Menelaus appears in the modern interpretation of the Trojan War, differs from Greek mythology. This transformation of the character's character is easy to explain.
On the territory of Ancient Greece, the name of Menelaus was no longer associated with the siege of the city of Troy, which he describes in the Iliad, but with the further adventures of the character that happened to the king of Sparta during his journey back home.
After the invasion of their uncle into Mycenae, the brothers had to leave the city and move to Sparta. While the young people were staying with the king Tyndareus, Menelaus met the daughter of the ruler of Sparta -. The beautiful girl charmed the exile, but Tyndareus did not dare to give his daughter in marriage. In addition, many Greek heroes had already courted Elena.
The king of Sparta allowed the beauty to decide his own fate on his own. And the girl, surprisingly to those around her, chose Menelaus. Soon after the wedding, Tyndareus died, leaving the throne to his beloved son-in-law. Menelaus lived in a peaceful and calm atmosphere for 10 years. A year after the wedding, the couple had a daughter, Hermione.
Everything changed when the threshold of Menelaus' house crossed. From the first minutes the son of Priam charmed both the king and Elena the Beautiful. But the man, who had not yet had to doubt his wife's loyalty, did not attach any importance to the beauty's interest.
The death of his grandfather forced Menelaus to leave his home and go to Crete. After returning from the funeral, the tsar received unpleasant news. The newly-minted friend and beloved wife fled to Troy. Menelaus equipped a military detachment and went into the possession. Threats, requests and exhortations did not work. Elena was not given. The humiliated and upset husband had no choice but to return home.
Together with his brother, Menelaus gathered an army consisting of friendly kings, mercenaries and ex-suitors of Elena (the men swore to protect the beauty, whom she would not prefer to be husbands). The inhabitants of Olympus also rushed to the aid of the king of Sparta - and sided with the woman's legal spouse. Despite the fact that a personal offense was inflicted on Menelaus, Agamemnon was entrusted to lead the military operations.
During the Trojan War, the king of Sparta showed himself to be a valiant hero and cold-blooded strategist. The man took part in the battles and happily accepted Paris' challenge to a duel. Angered by the betrayal, Menelaus pounced on the enemy with fury and quickly overpowered the pampered Paris. But she intervened in the matter and carried the ward back to the walls of Troy.
Feeling his own superiority, Menelaus with renewed vigor enters the fight for his wife. According to the rules of the duel, Paris after a lost battle must return Elena, but the young man violates the agreement. The topic of the truce finally closes with a spear fired by Pandar and wounding Menelaus in the shoulder.
The long-term confrontation brought many losses to both sides. Killed close associates of the king of Sparta. Menelaus experienced death no less and even guarded his friend's body from abuse by the Trojans.
After the fall of Troy and the capture of the city, the devastated and exhausted Menelaus goes in search of Helena of Troy to punish the infidel. But the wife, whose beauty has not faded even after 10 years, charms the man again. Menelaus takes the woman back to Sparta with him.
Before leaving for his homeland, the angry tsar quarrels with his beloved brother. Menelaus, who still has not forgiven the help of Athena to the Trojans, does not sacrifice to the goddess. Such an offense causes the wrath of Agamemnon. However, the goddess did not like such disdain. As a result, the ships of Menelaus do not find the desired course and end up in Egypt, Cyprus and Phenicia.
For almost 8 years, the king of Sparta gets to his home, making stops in unfamiliar countries and suffering hunger. Stepping on a familiar shore, Menelaus learns terrible news. While the man was absent, his beloved older brother died.
The only consolation for the hero was Elena. The beauty spent the rest of her life in humility, without leaving her husband. When the time came to die, Menelaus and Helen went to the Isles of the Blessed in Elysium (in other sources, a couple were sacrificed). In honor of the valiant king of Sparta, the descendants established sports.
Screen adaptations
In 1971, the Greek director Michalis Kakoyannis created a film based on the creation of Euripides. The film "Trojans" tells about the events that took place during the Trojan War. The role of the distraught husband of Elena the Beautiful was played by actor Patrick Maggie. The image created by the artist did not impress critics and viewers.
Menelaus, played by James Callis, is recognized as a more elaborate and realistic character. The film "Helena Troyanskaya" (2003) reveals in detail the events preceding the Trojan War. The two-part drama portrays the story through the eyes of the perpetrator of the conflict.
The popular film adaptation of Homer's Iliad was released in 2004. The film "Troy" is recognized as one of the most expensive films in the world. The role of the deceived husband went to the actor.
- The meaning of the name "Menelaus" is to stand still, to resist.
- "Menelaus with the body of Patroclus" is the most famous sculpture depicting the king of Sparta. Only a copy of a work of art has survived to this day.
- In addition to his legitimate daughter, Menelaus had sons Nicostratus and Pleisten. The boys' mothers are slaves who served at the palace.
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ATREY - in Greek mythology, the king of Mycenae, the father of the heroes of the Trojan War Agamemnon and Menelaus.
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Menelaus, broke the truce between the Achaeans and the Trojans. Killed by Diomedes.
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looks. Taught in Egypt Menelaus capture her father and find out from him a way to return home.
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Argos Plaisten, then for his brother Atreus. She gave birth to the last Agamemnon and Menelaus.
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Hermione) - daughter Menelaus and Helena, betrothed by her father, according to the promise made under Troy, with her son
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acts as a skilled archer; impelled by Athena, he wounds Menelaus and this violates
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pre-duel armistice agreement Menelaus with Paris. (Note. II. IV 86-147). Another time P - Deiphobe
and Hector. After the capture of Troy, his house was first destroyed, and D. himself was betrayed by Elena, whose spouse he was after the death of Paris, into the hands of Menelaus.
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HERMIONE - daughter in Greek mythology Menelaus and Elena. During the capture of Troy, Neoptolemus was promised
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supergiant, F-star of magnitude -0.7. Named for the leader of the king's fleet Menelaus from Greek mythology.
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between the goddesses Hero, Athena and Aphrodite; for the promise to help in the abduction of Helena (the wife of the king of Sparta Menelaus) was awarded by Paris to Aphrodite.
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in Greek mythology, daughter Menelaus and Elena. The Odyssey (IV 3-9) reports on the extradition of
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troops during the Trojan War (See Trojan War). Son of Atreus (See Atreus) and brother Menelaus(See Menelaus
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Menelaus... K. disappeared since the introduction of Christianity in Egypt. Strab. 17, 800 words
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extraordinary beauty. Married to a Spartan king Menelaus(See Menelaus) E. was kidnapped by a Trojan
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Elena. During the capture of Troy, he dies at the hands of someone who broke into his house. Menelaus(Apollod. Epit. V 9, 22). v. I am.
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on the way from under Troy Menelaus and Elena (Horn. Od. IV 125 next); 2) the Sikion king, the grandfather of Hell growth
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He hurt Menelaus and by this he violated the alliance he had just concluded, but in the ensuing struggle he died by hand
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hospitably received and gifted Menelaus during his wanderings in the destruction of Troy. No. Od. 4, 125 sl
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secured her support for his abduction of the wife of the king of Sparta Menelaus- beautiful Elena, but called
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ELENA - in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women, the wife of the king of Sparta Menelaus... Helena's abduction
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square of Navona). The statue depicted Ajax with the corpse of Achilles (according to others - Menelaus, with a corpse
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and Menelaus; Klymene married Navilius and bore him Eacus and Palamedes. Alfemen with his sister Apemosina
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but freed by her brothers. Tyndareus (see Tyndareus, Tyndareus) gave her off as Menelaus, the king of the Spartans
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him to kidnap Elena - the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus, which was the reason for the Trojan War. At the end
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learned from Menelaus about Proteus's prediction regarding the return of Odysseus. Returning home, T. met
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son-in-law Menelaus to Sparta and handed him royal power. The temple of Athena Halkioiki in Sparta was erected, according to legend, T .; in Sparta, they showed the tomb of T.
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destroyed by Odysseus and Menelaus (No. Menelaus... Verg. Aen. 6, 494 ff.
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her ghost, and she herself lived with P. until her return Menelaus... Still, according to another legend, P. moved from Egypt
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the war with Troy was the kidnapping of the wife of the Spartan king by the Trojan prince Paris Menelaus- Elena
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I. Agamemnon, at the insistence Menelaus and the troops, had to agree to this, and I. was required
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high priest Onias 4th. When, after death Menelaus, Alcimus was appointed high priest from Antiochus Eupator
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Agamemnon and Menelaus and together with his father seizes power in Mycenae.
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Helen in Troy, P. was on the island of Crete. Learning about the misfortune Menelaus, he joined the plan
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from the underworld into the light. Strab. 8, 373;
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fulfilling the promise given to Paris - the son of the Trojan king Priam, brings him to the house Menelaus, E
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waiting for the return Menelaus from the Trojan campaign (the plot is elaborated in detail in the tragedy of Euripides “E
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sl.) and Eropa and brother Menelaus(see this sl.). He fled after the death of his father by his nephew Aegistus, his son
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mathematicians and astronomers: Euclid ("Elements"), Archimedes, Autolycus, Gipsicles, Menelaus, Ptolemy (4 books
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on the daughter Hermione promised to him earlier Menelaus... According to another legend (Virgil), when
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after Menelaus in Sparta, and later sources (Apollod. epit. 6,28) report the death of O. from a snakebite
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abandoned her husband's house and sailed with her at night to Asia, taking many treasures from the palace Menelaus... This act
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others. The most remarkable of these was the first. In the first part, the author proves the theorem Menelaus
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To fulfill her insidious plan, she, taking advantage of the absence of her husband, calls on her father Menelaus
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was the abduction by Paris, the son of the Trojan king Priam, the king's wife Menelaus Beautiful Elena
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to their opponents the Achaeans. Then Paris sailed on a ship to Greece, stopped at a house Menelaus
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sent Odysseus and Menelaus to negotiate with the Trojans about the extradition of Elena and the return of the treasure
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them much later the drama "Refusal to the Greek Ambassadors" (1578), depicting the embassy Menelaus to Troy with a demand
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daughters Menelaus, from whom he had a son, Tisamen, and from another wife, Erigona, daughter of Aegisthus
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Trojan prince) wife of Sparta. king Menelaus- Elena. Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon called for help
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Elena, the most beautiful woman, wife Menelaus, with whom he visited while traveling in Greece
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"in Moscow," Palace "theater in Petrograd, where he played the role of Boni (" Silva "by Kalman), Menelaus
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and all her former suitors united in a campaign against Troy, A., as an older brother Menelaus and most
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where the games were celebrated; they also showed him and Helen's grave there (see Μενελάϊον, Menelaus mountain);
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Spartan king Menelaus, kidnapped his wife - the beautiful Elena and great treasures. Insidious
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a niche flanked by church plantings. Pluzhnikov. || transfer Martial arts Menelaus with Paris
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but O. and Pilad attack his wife Menelaus Elena, sister of Clytemnestra, whom she saves by taking to heaven
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so that the winner gets Elena and the kidnapped Menelaus hidden treasures. Paris is defeated and, only thanks to
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parts of the palace of Tiryns contribute to the clarification of Homeric descriptions - the chambers of Alcinoe, Menelaus
who married after the capture of Troy, first to the widow of Hector Andromache, and then to his daughter Menelaus Hermione
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to sweep Menelaus and the ambitious adventure of Agamemnon. The third force is the hero Achilles, whose wounded
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Argonauts (real robber expedition), bragging Menelaus their corsairs and captured
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v. includes the activities of the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Menelaus(See Menelaus) of Alexandria
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(Menelaus, ???? "????). Son of Atreus, husband of the beautiful Elena, father of Hermione, younger brother of Agamemnon, king of Sparta. Paris (see Paris) took away Elena, wife of Menelaus, and this was the reason for the Trojan War During the war, Menelaus entered into single combat with Paris, who was saved by Aphrodite, covered with a cloud.After the death of Paris, Helen married his brother Deyphobe, who was killed by Menelaus during the capture of Troy. Helen subsequently reconciled with Menelaus, together with him sailed from Troy and, after 8 years of wandering along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, they return to Sparta, where they live out their lives in peace and wealth.
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(Aegistus) is the son of Fiesta and his daughter Pelopia, who abandoned the child. He was brought up at the court of his uncle Atreus, the king of Mycenae, who ... - HELENA in the Dictionary-reference book Myths of Ancient Greece:
- the fairest of women. Daughter of Leda and Zeus, who took the form of a swan, sister of Dioscuri and Clytemnestra (Castor and Clytemnestra were children ... - GLAVK in the Dictionary-reference book Myths of Ancient Greece:
1) sea deity, son of Poseidon. According to the myth, he was a fisherman from Anfedon in Boeotia. He drank a witch's potion, after which he ended up in ... - HELENA in the Handbook of Characters and Cult Objects of Greek Mythology:
In Greek mythology, the Spartan queen, the most beautiful of women. The ancient tradition calls Elena's father Zeus, mother - Leda or Nemesis. V … - DEMETRY I in the Handbook of Characters and Cult Objects of Greek Mythology:
Poliorket King of Asia 306-301 BC King of Macedonia 294-287 BC Son of Antigonus I Cyclops. Genus. ... - EURIPIDES in the Handbook of Characters and Cult Objects of Greek Mythology:
EURIPIDS is the third among the most famous Greek tragedians, Greek tragedians, whose dramas have survived in part. He was born according to the usual order in 480 BC ...
Menelaus (Μενέλαος), in Greek myth-making, the king of Sparta, the son of Atreus and Aeropa, the husband of Elena, the younger brother of Agamemnon. The brothers expelled by Tiestes fled from Mycenae to Sparta, to Tyndareus, whose daughter, Elena, Menelaus married and inherited the throne of his father-in-law (Apollodorus, II 16). Menelaus's serene life with Elena lasted for about ten years; their daughter Hermione was nine years old when the Trojan prince Paris came to Sparta. Menelaus at this time went to Crete to participate in the funeral of his maternal grandfather Katrei. Having learned about the abduction of his wife and treasures by Paris, Menelaus and Odysseus went to Troy (Ilion) and demanded the extradition of the kidnapped wife, but to no avail.
Returning home, Menelaus, with the help of Agamemnon, gathered friendly kings for the Ilion campaign, and he himself put sixty ships, recruiting soldiers in Lacedaemon, Amikles and other lands of Hellas. In addition, after the abduction of his wife by Paris, Menelaus gathered all her former suitors, bound by a vow of mutual assistance, and began preparing, together with his brother Agamemnon, for the Trojan War. In relation to Agamemnon, he considered himself subordinate and recognized his supreme power in everything.
At the walls of Troy, Menelaus, with the help of Hera and Athena, proved himself to be a valiant warrior and a wise adviser. When Paris announced a challenge to single combat, Menelaus happily agreed and so fiercely rushed at the enemy that the latter was frightened and began to retreat. Hector put Paris to shame, and the single combat took place: Menelaus grabbed Paris by the helmet and drew him to the Achaean squads, but Aphrodite saved her favorite (Homer, Iliad, III 324-382). The victorious side began to demand the handover of Elena and the treasures taken with her, but Pandarus, who came out from the ranks of the Trojans, wounded Menelaus and thereby eliminated the possibility of a truce. Later, Menelaus is challenged to a single combat with Hector, but at the request of his friends, he abandons this dangerous plan; likewise, Antilochus kept him from competing with Aeneas. When Patroclus fell, Menelaus was among those who defended the body of the slain hero (Apollodorus, XVII 1 - 69, 553-581, 702-761). When the wooden horse was built, Menelaus, along with other Greek soldiers, came to the city of Troy.
Menelaus immediately went to the house of Deiphobus, where Helen lived. There he, together with Odysseus, entered into a bloody battle, and which of them killed Deiphobus remains unknown. Menelaus intended to execute his wife for treason, but her divine beauty shook his resolve, he lowered his sword and led Helen to the ships, completely forgiving her. Before returning, Menelaus, who believed that Athena was helping the Trojans too much, refused to make a sacrifice to the goddess, which displeased Agamemnon and the brothers parted in a quarrel. Menelaus was caught in a storm sent by Athena, the storm nailed his five ships off the coast of Egypt, carrying the rest of the fleet to Crete. During his eight-year wanderings, Menelaus ends up in Cyprus, Phenicia and Egypt, where he acquires great treasures (Homer, Odyssey, III 276-312).
After traveling for eight years in the East, Menelaus stayed for some time on the island of Pharos and endured hardships, until, on the advice of Eidothea, her father, the sea elder Proteus, helped him to sail home. The last stage of Menelaus's return to Sparta after an eighteen-year absence, according to epic tradition, proceeded without complications. Warned by Proteus about the murder by Aegisthus of Agamemnon, Menelaus is in a hurry to take revenge on Aegisthus, but Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who killed Aegisthus and Clytemestra, is ahead of him, Menelaus keeps up only for their funeral (Homer, Odysseus, III 301-312, IV 546, 584). Returning to Sparta, Menelaus and Helen lived in Lacedaemon in peace, harmony and contentment until the very day when they - hand in hand - went to the Isles of the Blessed in Elysium. According to another version, they ended up in Taurida, where Iphigenia sacrificed both of them to Artemis. The tomb of Menelaus was shown in Ferapna, where his sanctuary was and took place in honor of his game (Pausanias, III 14, 6). In historical times, the maiden choir performed a ritual epithalamic at the burial place of Menelaus and Helena, similar to Theocritus, the poet of the third century BC, attested in one of the idylls.