Menelaus is the brother of Agamemnon and the King of Sparta. His wife is Helen and he was one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War. In The Odyssey, Menelaus tries to help Telemachus find his father Odysseus.
Menelaus, King of Sparta, naturtally knows Odysseus, King of Ithaca.
well... you should read the book The Odyssey by Homer
the new that menelus gives is that it was odyessu's idea of the horse
Of the major Greek heroes at the siege of Troy, Menelaus has one of the thinnest stories after the fall of the city.Menelaus appears in Homer's Odyssey (IV) back home in Sparta, re-united with his wife Helen. Helen is unable to bear a son to Menelaus, and the king himself seems tortured by memories of the futility and destructiveness of the war. Like most of the Greek heroes, Menelaus found the journey home difficult, and in fact was stranded in Egypt for several years.According to Euripides' Helen, Menelaus and Helen are re-united after death on the Isles of the Blessed. But Menelaus is as unhappy with his reconditioned wife after death as he was while she lived.
Helen of Troy
Menelaus, King of Sparta, naturtally knows Odysseus, King of Ithaca.
Balance is the best of all things - Menelaus
Proteus is the one who gives Menelaus the information about Odysseus still being alive but trapped by Calypso. Menelaus passes this information to Odysseus' son Telemachus.
No, Menelaus is the son of Pleisthenes and Aerope - or Atreus and Cleola. Penelope the wife of Odysseus was the daughter of Icarius who was brother to Tyndareus the husband of Leda, who was mother of Helen.
well... you should read the book The Odyssey by Homer
the new that menelus gives is that it was odyessu's idea of the horse
Proteusâ?? daughter informed Menelaus that if he were able to capture her father, he could make him reveal how he had offended the Gods and what he needed to do to please them. Despite having to battle Proteus' powers as an shape shifter, he managed to successfully capture him when he came out of the sea, Menelaus was then able to obtain the needed information.
In the Odyssey in Book 4, Menelaus speaks with Telemachus about his life's story. In this story, he recalls a conversation he had with Eidothea - the daughter of the shapeshifting "Old Man of the Sea", Proteus. In this conversation Eidothea informs Menelaus that in order to extract any information out of him, that he must grasp on tight to the shapeshifter, for he will change shape numerous times in order to escape.
Of the major Greek heroes at the siege of Troy, Menelaus has one of the thinnest stories after the fall of the city.Menelaus appears in Homer's Odyssey (IV) back home in Sparta, re-united with his wife Helen. Helen is unable to bear a son to Menelaus, and the king himself seems tortured by memories of the futility and destructiveness of the war. Like most of the Greek heroes, Menelaus found the journey home difficult, and in fact was stranded in Egypt for several years.According to Euripides' Helen, Menelaus and Helen are re-united after death on the Isles of the Blessed. But Menelaus is as unhappy with his reconditioned wife after death as he was while she lived.
In Sparta, Telemachus says fare well to Menelaus and returns home to Ithaca. First, he too goes to Eumaes's hut.
The legends of early Greece appear in the Iliad and Odyssey, including Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus plus many more.
In the "Odyssey," Helen was the wife of Menelaus, not Odysseus. Odysseus was married to Penelope, who remained faithful to him during his long journey back from the Trojan War.