Menelaus
Greek · mortal · heroic age · mortal
Mortal king of Sparta; husband of Helen; younger brother of Agamemnon. The injured-husband whose call to honor the Tyndareus-oath assembled the Greek coalition for Troy. Marked by Homer with a moderate, somewhat passive heroism — a competent but second-tier warrior, eclipsed in martial reputation by Diomedes, Ajax, and Achilles, but distinguished by his special claim on Zeus's daughter that earns him Elysium without dying. Father by Helen of Hermione (Iliad/Odyssey), and in non-Homeric traditions of Nicostratus, Aethiolas, Maraphius, and Pleisthenes; by the slave Pieris of Megapenthes.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- kingship spartan
Powers
- Defeat Paris in single combat for Helen
- Be granted deathless life in the Elysian Fields
- Wrestle and hold fast the shape-shifting sea-god to force prophecy
Epithets
- ξανθὸς Μενέλαος
- ἀρηΐφιλος
- βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Μενέλαος