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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Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.

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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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She got her out of the city and took her to Menelaus.

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