Menelaus

[men-l-ey-uhs]

noun

1. Classical Mythology.,  a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.

Menelaus

/ ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a king of Sparta and the brother of Agamemnon. He was the husband of Helen, whose abduction led to the Trojan War

Example Sentences

The father’s subsequent confrontation with Menelaus is so stilted and jumbled that it nearly derails the play.

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When the woman is a powerful man’s wife — Helen was married to King Menelaus of Sparta — the effort to retrieve her can hardly help escalating to armed conflict.

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It is only through sheer persistence that Menelaus, the great hero, is able to wrestle Proteus to a standstill.

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As Whishaw spins out modern-ancient parallels, including a comparison of Arthur Miller to Menelaus, he strips down and changes into drag, eventually assuming Monroe’s look in “The Seven Year Itch.”

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Geoffrey Rush has taken his seat at the bar tables in the courtroom alongside his wife, Jane Menelaus, and he eyes off the rows of media sitting in the jury box.

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