Menelaos

Japanese: メネラオス（英語表記）Menelaos

Hero of Greek mythology. Son of Mycenae's king Atreus and Aerope. After Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, he fled to Sparta with his brother Agamemnon, where he married the beautiful Helen, daughter of King Tyndareus, and succeeded his father-in-law as king. However, while he was away on the island of Crete for the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus, Paris, a Trojan prince staying as a guest at his court, kidnapped Helen along with his treasures. This led to the plot to invade Troy with Agamemnon, who had married Helen's sister Clytemnestra and become king of Mycenae, as commander-in-chief. During the Trojan War, Menelaus fought bravely with Agamemnon, achieving many great feats, and even fought a decisive duel with Paris, wounding his sworn enemy and bringing victory to the Greeks. However, the Trojan archer Pandarus, persuaded by Athena, broke the truce and wounded Menelaus with an arrow, which restarted the fighting. After the fall of Troy, he went to the palace of Deiphobus, the Trojan prince who had become Helen's husband after Paris' death in battle, killed him, and took Helen back. He also tried to kill her, but could not resist her charms, and they made up, and after eight years, he returned to Sparta. After that, he and Helen ruled the country for many years in prosperity and happiness, and in the end, both were granted the privilege of enjoying immortality in the Elysian paradise.

Menelaus
Menelaos, Marcus Cossutius

A Roman sculptor born in Greece in the late 1st century BC. A pupil of Stephanos. Known for the marble group "Electra and Orestes" in the National Museum of Rome. His style is the same as that of the Pasitelean school (a school that began with the 1st century BC Greek sculptor Pasitelians), which pursued realistic techniques.

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Japanese:

ギリシア神話の英雄。ミケーネ王アトレウスとアエロペの息子。アトレウスがアイギストスに殺害されたあと，兄アガメムノンとともにスパルタに亡命し，そこでテュンダレオス王の娘で絶世の美女ヘレネと結婚し，義父の跡を継いでスパルタ王となった。しかし母方の祖父カトレウスの葬儀のためクレタ島に行った留守の間に，彼の宮廷に客として滞在していたトロイの王子パリスによって，ヘレネを財宝とともに連れ去られた。これが，ヘレネの姉妹クリュタイムネストラと結婚し，ミケーネ王となっていたアガメムノンを総大将とするトロイ遠征が企てられる原因となった。トロイ戦争の間メネラオスは，アガメムノンを助けて奮戦し，多くの手柄を立て，一度は勝敗を決する一騎打ちをパリスと演じ，この仇敵に重傷を負わせてギリシア方に勝利をもたらしたと思われたが，トロイ方の弓の名手パンダロスが，アテナにそそのかされて休戦の協定を破り，メネラオスに矢傷を負わせたため，戦闘が再開されたこともあった。トロイ落城のおりには，パリスの戦死したあとヘレネの夫となっていたトロイの王子デイフォボスの館に行き，これを殺してヘレネを取戻し，いったんは彼女も殺そうとしたが，その魅力に抗することができず仲直りして，8年を費やしてスパルタに帰り着いた。以後彼は，ヘレネとともに繁栄と幸福のうちに長い年月国を統治した末に，最後には夫妻ともエリュシオンの楽園で，不滅の生を享受する特権を許されたという。