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Menelaus
Μενέλᾱος grc
Mythical king of Sparta, husband of Helen of Troy
- Child of Atreus, Aerope and Pleisthenes
- Married to Helen of Troy
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One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
- Dates unrecorded mythological king of Sparta
Family tree
As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
The family as a list · 17
Kinship in an account 1
Family 16
- 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
- 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
- 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
- married to Helen of Troy daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology
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