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Menelaus

noun

(Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen.

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... Menelaus: Menelaus' wife, Helen, was stolen by a guest, Paris of Troy, which caused ...

— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton

... Kindliness Mummia The Fish Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body Flight The Hill The One Before the Last The Jolly Company The Life Beyond Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia Dead Men's Love Town and Country Paralysis Menelaus and Helen Libido Jealousy Blue Evening The Charm Finding Song The Voice Dining-Room Tea The Goddess in the Wood A Channel Passage Victory ...

— The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke • Rupert Brooke

... of the husband, by-the-bye, reminds me that he was extremely backward about the great work of recovering his youthful bride. The relations of the girl, who felt themselves disgraced by her conduct, were vehement and excited to a high pitch, but the Menelaus of Nablus was exceedingly ...

— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake

... of Atreus, particularly Agamemnon and Menelaus, a family frequently referred to as capable of and doomed to perpetrating ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... fastest runner the most beautiful bowl that was to be found in all the world, he naturally chose one which had been deftly made by highly-skilled Sidonians, and which Phoenician sailors had conveyed in one of their hollow barks across the cloud-shadowed sea.[1416] When Menelaus proposed to present Telemachus, the son of his old comrade Odysseus, with what was at once the most beautiful and the most valuable of all his possessions, he selected a silver bowl with a golden rim, which in former days he had himself received ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... palace of the King In Lacedaemon, was there revelry, Since Menelaus with the dawn did spring Forth from his carven couch, and, climbing high The tower of outlook, gazed along the dry White road that runs to Pylos through the plain, And mark'd thin clouds of dust against the sky, And gleaming bronze, and ...

— Helen of Troy • Andrew Lang

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