Menelaus
Men-elaus was the son of Atreus, the brother of Agamemnon. Menelaus was the king of Sparta, because he had married Helen, the daughter of the old king of Sparta. He was married to Helen when Paris took Helen away to Troy.
After the Trojan War, Menelaus got Helen back and he sailed home with her. They didn't have any trouble getting home. They went right back to living in their house in Sparta and apparently got along fine. They appear in Homer's Odyssey.
To find out more about Menelaus, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:
The Pride of Lions: The Story of the House of Atreus, by Norma Johnston (2002, unfortunately out of print right now, but maybe your library can find it). For middle schoolers.
The Iliad of Homer (Oxford Myths and Legends), by Barbara Leonie Picard. A retelling of the story, for kids.
Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, by Kostas Myrsiades (1987).
The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer. Translated by Robert Fagles.
The World of Odysseus, by Moses Finley and Bernard Knox (1954). A standard for anyone interested in Homer.
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