menelaus in English

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king of Sparta, husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon. Helen was stolen from him by Paris, an event that provoked the Trojan War.

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1. Atreus definition is - a king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

2. To pay Antiochus, Menelaus took large sums of money from the temple treasury.

3. Agamemnon definition, a king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus

4. Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively.

5. Therefore, Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus had to take refuge with Tyndareus, the king of Sparta.

6. Atreus was an ancient Greek King of Mycenae who bore two sons, King Agamemnon and King Menelaus

7. What does Atreus mean? A king of Mycenae, brother of Thyestes and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus

8. Three years later Menelaus, who may not have been of the priestly line, offered a higher bribe, and Jason fled.

9. Agamemnon and Iphigenia Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae [see Argos on map] and brother to Menelaus, the King of Sparta []

10. Agamemnon is the older brother of Menelaus, whose wife Helen was stolen by a Trojan prince, thus igniting a decade-long war.

11. Agamemnon is most commonly called a son of Atreus, son of Pelops, by Aerope, daughter of Catreus; and thus, Agamemnon was brother to Menelaus and Anaxibia

12. Agamemnon was a son of Atreus, the husband of Clytemnestra (a daughter of Tyndareus), and the brother of Menelaus, who was the husband of Helen of Troy (Clytemnestra's sister).

13. Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

14. When the Trojan prince Paris carried off Helen, wife of his brother Menelaus, Agamemnon called for revenge and led the Greek forces to victory during the Trojan War

15. Menelaus succeededTyndareus, and Agamemnon,with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus. His kinsman, Aegisthus, who in the interval had seduced his wife Clytaemnestra, invited him to a banquet at.

16. In Greek mythology, Atreus (Ancient Greek: Ἀτρεύς) was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae.

17. Atreus Atreus was a king of Mycenae in Greek mythology, son of Pelops and Hippodamia. He was married to Aerope and fathered a girl, Anaxibia, and two boys, Agamemnon and Menelaus, two of the protagonists of the Trojan War

18. Atreus （ Ἀτρεύς), a son of Pelops and Hippodameia, a grandson of Tantalus, and a brother of Thyestes and Nicippe.[PELOPS.] He was first married to Cleola, by whom he became the father of Pleisthenes; then to Aerope, the widow of his son Pleisthenes, who was the mother of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia, either by Pleisthenes or by Atreus [AGAMEMNON]; and lastly to Pelopia, the