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Menelaus

NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen

How To Use Menelaus In A Sentence

  • The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
  • It then follows from the Menelaus theorem, that every three such points are collinear provided all or two of the bisectors are external.
  • Menelaus," said he, "let me go back now to my own country, for I want to get home. The Odyssey
  • Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
  • She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
  • And though it gall thee to be told so, albeit thy city in Laconia is no doubt mighty fact, yet thou findest no place for his Scyros, displaying wealth 'midst poverty and setting Menelaus above Andromache
  • Atreus – Atreus, king of Mycene, was the son of Pelops and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. more info N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
  • This arrow pierces Menelaus' clothing but does not wound him fatally, even though the blood comes gushing out.
  • In Menelaus there was no wisedom, to seke and hunte after Helena, or by any meanes to possesse her, she be - yng a harlotte, her loue alienated, her hart possessed with the loue of an other manne: foolishlie he hopeth to possesse loue, A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
  • But when Spartan Princess Helen cuckolds Menelaus with Trojan Prince Paris, warmongering Agamemnon uses it as an excuse for launching an all out war on Troy.
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