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noun(Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen
Definition that contains menelaus
- paris (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
- atreus (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus
- trojan war (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground