Figure Greek and Roman
Menelaus
Μενέλᾱος grc
Mythical king of Sparta, husband of Helen of Troy
- Child of Atreus, Aerope and Pleisthenes
- Married to Helen of Troy
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
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- Dates unrecorded mythological king of Sparta
Family
The family of Menelaus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 17
Kinship in an account 1
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
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Family 16
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
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child of (child) Aerope daughter of Catreus, the king of Crete -
child of (child) Atreus king of Mycenae, father of Agamemnon - child of (child) Pleisthenes son of Pelops, and brother of Atreus and Thyestes
- parent of (child) Aethiolas son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy
- parent of (child) Corythus son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy
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parent of (father) Hermione daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy - parent of (child) Megapenthes Figure in Greek mythology; son of Menelaus
- parent of (child) Morraphius son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy
- parent of (child) Nicostratus son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy
- parent of (child) Pleisthenes son of Menelaus and Helen
- parent of (child) Thronius son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy
- parent of (child) Xenodamus son of Menelaus and Cnossia
- partner of Cnossia misstress of Menelaus in Greek myth
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sibling of Agamemnon son of Atreus in Greek mythology - sibling of Anaxibia sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus, spouse of Strophius, mother of Pylades in Greek mythology
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married to Helen of Troy daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology
Texts
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Sources
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17 statements on this record
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